Soft Actuators Materials, Modeling, Applications, and Future Perspectives /

The subject of this book is the current comprehensive research and development of soft actuators, and encompasses interdisciplinary studies of materials science, mechanics, electronics, robotics, and bioscience. As an example, the book includes current research on actuators based on biomaterials to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Asaka, Kinji (Editor ), Okuzaki, Hidenori (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
Temas:
Polymers.
Biomaterials.
Control engineering.
Robotics.
Automation.
Electronics.
Control, Robotics, Automation.
Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Progress and Current Status of Materials and Properties of Soft Actuators
  • Current Status of Applications and Markets of Soft Actuators
  • Electromagnetic Heating.-Thermo-Responsive Nanofiber Mats Fabricated by Electrospinning
  • Self-Oscillating Gels
  • Ionic Conductive Polymers
  • Conducting Polymers
  • Humidity-Sensitive Conducting Polymer Actuators
  • Carbon Nanotube/Ionic Liquid Composites
  • Ion Gels for Ionic Polymer Actuators
  • Ionic Liquid/Polyurethane/PEDOT:PSS Composite Actuators
  • Dielectric Gels
  • Dielectric Elastomers
  • Development of Actuators Using Slide Ring Materials and Their Various Applications
  • Piezoelectric Polymers
  • Spiropyran-Functionalized Hydrogel Actuators
  • Photomechanical Energy Conversion with Cross-linked Liquid-Crystalline Polymers
  • Photoredox Reaction
  • Magnetic Fluid Composite Gels
  • Magnetic Particle Composite Gels
  • Molecular Mechanism of Electrically Induced Volume Change of Porous Electrodes
  • Material Modeling
  • Distributed Parameter System Modeling
  • Modeling and Feedback Control of Electro-Active Polymer Actuators
  • Motion Design - A Gel Robot Approach
  • Motion Control
  • Application of Nano-Carbon Actuator to Braille Display
  • Underwater Soft Robots
  • IPMC Actuator-Based Multifunctional Underwater Microrobots
  • Medical Applications
  • Micro Pump Driven by a Pair of Conducting Polymer Soft Actuators
  • Elastomer Transducers
  • Tissue Engineering Approach to Making Soft Actuators
  • ATP-Driven Bio-Machine
  • Employing Cytoskeletal Treadmilling in Bio-Actuator.

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