論文

査読有り
2020年7月

Laser Pouch Motors: Selective and Wireless Activation of Soft Actuators by Laser-Powered Liquid-to-Gas Phase Change

IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS
  • Takefumi Hiraki
  • ,
  • Kenichi Nakahara
  • ,
  • Koya Narumi
  • ,
  • Ryuma Niiyama
  • ,
  • Noriaki Kida
  • ,
  • Naoki Takamura
  • ,
  • Hiroshi Okamoto
  • ,
  • Yoshihiro Kawahara

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開始ページ
4180
終了ページ
4187
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1109/LRA.2020.2982864
出版者・発行元
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC

Untethered control of soft-bodied robots is attractive for interactions in a variety of unstructured and dynamic environments. However, soft robotics systems are currently limited in terms of wireless, selective, and scalable control of multiple actuators. Therefore, we propose a method to wirelessly drive multiple soft actuators by laser projection. A small amount of low-boiling-point liquid inside a planar thin pouch can be heated by a laser and evaporated to inflate the whole body. Laser projection enables both wireless energy supply and the selection of target actuators. Further, the low-boiling-point liquid serves as an actuation source and as a receiver of laser irradiation. Thus, we do not need additional components such as electric circuits and batteries to achieve simple and scalable implementation of multiple soft actuators. We evaluated the mechanical properties and demonstrated that the system can wirelessly control the gestures of fingers of a robot hand. We also verified that our method can activate a group of mobile soft robots simultaneously and individually while tracking the actuator positions. Our approach contributes to the scalable deployment of soft robotic systems by removing tethers for power and communication.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2020.2982864
DBLP
https://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/journals/ral/HirakiNNNKTOK20
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000538149900005&DestApp=WOS_CPL
URL
https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/ral/ral5.html#HirakiNNNKTOK20
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2020.2982864
  • ISSN : 2377-3766
  • DBLP ID : journals/ral/HirakiNNNKTOK20
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000538149900005

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