Name
Abstract | ||
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Pneumatically-actuated soft robots are limited by the need to provide a source of pressure, typically DC motor powered pumps, compromising the softness of the overall system. This has motivated the investigation of alternative means of providing pressure, including mono-propellant decomposition, combustion of hydrocarbons in oxygen, and active composite foams. In this work, we propose the thermally driven evaporation of low-boiling point fluids as a facile method for providing pressure to soft robotic systems. We first discuss and test the thermodynamics of heating low-boiling point fluids. We then introduce two possible applications of low-boiling point fluids in soft robotics. First, we demonstrate a cheap and easily fabricated compliant heating element and show how this can be used to convert existing fluidic elastomer actuators to be driven by low-boiling point fluids. Secondly, we also demonstrate and characterise a soft-matter pump driven by low-boiling point fluids. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2019 | 10.1109/ROBOSOFT.2019.8722812 | 2019 2nd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft) |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Heating systems,Soft robotics,Heat transfer,Electrodes,Actuators,Thermodynamics | Boiling point,Computer science,Mechanical engineering,Robot | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
978-1-5386-9260-8 | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 5 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martin Garrad | 1 | 2 | 2.09 |
| Gabor Soter | 2 | 4 | 2.17 |
| Andrew T. Conn | 3 | 12 | 8.88 |
| Helmut Hauser | 4 | 50 | 9.56 |
| Jonathan Rossiter | 5 | 41 | 7.49 |