3D printing of fiber reinforced soft robotics
Soft robotics is a rapidly growing new field of robotics whereby the robots are fundamentally soft and elastically deformable. Many of the soft robotics are inspired by soft bodied animals, are made of intrinsically soft, extensible and highly compliant materials. In this paper, 3D inkjet-printed...
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| Format: | Conference Paper |
| Language: | English |
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2018
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88703 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45997 |
| Summary: | Soft robotics is a rapidly growing new field of robotics whereby the robots are
fundamentally soft and elastically deformable. Many of the soft robotics are inspired by soft
bodied animals, are made of intrinsically soft, extensible and highly compliant materials. In this
paper, 3D inkjet-printed fiber reinforced soft composites were used to develop a pneumatic
actuated soft robotics. The fiber reinforced soft composites are able to remain flexible yet strong
due to the thin inextensible fibers embedded within the matrix. Then it is being adopted into
designing a soft robotic which can perform controlled motion such as extension with varying air
pressure. The potential and challenges of current 3D printed soft robotics will also be discussed. |
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