Description
Robotic Systems and Autonomous Platforms: Advances in Materials and Manufacturing showcases new materials and manufacturing methodologies for the enhancement of robotic and autonomous systems. Initial chapters explore how autonomous systems can enable new uses for materials, including innovations on different length scales, from nano, to macro and large systems. The means by which autonomous systems can enable new uses for manufacturing are also addressed, highlighting innovations in 3D additive manufacturing, printing of materials, novel synthesis of multifunctional materials, and robotic cooperation. Concluding themes deliver highly novel applications from the international academic, industrial and government sectors.This book will provide readers with a complete review of the cutting-edge advances in materials and manufacturing methodologies that could enhance the capabilities of robotic and autonomous systems.- Presents comprehensive coverage of materials and manufacturing technologies, as well as sections on related technology, such as sensing, communications, autonomy/control and actuation- Explores potential applications demonstrated by a selection of case-studies- Contains contributions from leading experts in the field
Table of Contents
Section A Actuation1. Manipulation, assembling, and actuation of nanomotors by electric tweezersDonglei (Emma) Fan2. Artificial muscle logic devices for autonomous local controlE.-F. Markus Henke, Katherine E. Wilson, Geoffrey A. Slipher, Randy A. Mrozek, Iain A. Anderson3. Hygromorphic living materials for shape changingLining YaoSection B Mobility4. Fluid-driven intrinsically soft robotsRobert Shepherd, Kirstin Petersen5. Designing Proteus: Engineering form and function for microroboticsRemmi Baker, Allan M. Brooks, Ayusman Sen6. Physics approaches to natural locomotion: Every robot is an experimentYasemin Ozkan Aydin, Jennifer M. Rieser, Christian M. Hubicki, William Savoie, Daniel I. Goldman7. Robotic colloids: Engineered self-propulsion at the microscale (and smaller)Jeffrey L. MoranSection C Control Theory and Algorithms – Logic and Proxy Electronic Functions – Algorithmic Materials8. Soft timer: Dynamic clock embedded in soft bodyKohei Nakajima, Tao Li, Nozomi Akashi9. Algorithmic materials: Embedding computation within material properties for autonomyAna Pervan, Todd Murphey10. Achieving self-sustained motion of particles in solution with chemical pumpsOleg E. Shklyaev, Henry Shum, Anna C. Balazs11. Topology optimization for robotics applicationsRaymond Wildman, Andrew GaynorSection D Integration12. Robotic materials for robot autonomyNikolaus Correl13. 3D printed electronic materials and devicesRuitao Su, Sung Hyun Park, Zhaohan Li, Michael C. McAlpine14. Additive manufacturing of soft robotsS. Walker, O.D. Yirmibesoglu, U. Daalkhaijav, Y. Menguc15. Synthetic cells, or colloidal state machines, with two-dimensional materialsJingfan Yang, Volodymyr B. Koman, Pingwei Liu, Tianxian Liu, Michael S. StranoSection E Energy16. Energy harvesting techniques mediated by molecular interactions with nanostructured carbon materialsAlbert Tianxiang Liu, Ge Zhang, Michael S. Strano17. Mechanics of fluid-elastomer systems in soft roboticsCarmel Majidi18. Structural power, energy, actuation, and mobility in intelligently directed systems enabled from nanocrystalline metalsAnit K. Giri, Kristopher A. Darling, Shawn M. WalshSection F Novel Robotics as Material Platforms19. Materials design for robotic platforms enabling unique mechanisms of projectile protectionPingwei Liu, Michael S. Strano20. The confluence of intelligent agents and materials to enable protection of humans in extreme and dangerous environmentsShawn M. Walsh, Daniel M. Baechle21 Super materials and robots making robots: Challenges and opportunities in robotic building at the microstructural levelRon Pelrine
