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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| author | Yap, Yee Ling Lee, Yi Wei Yeong, Wai Yee |
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| description | 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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| spelling | ntu-10356/887032020-09-24T20:14:22Z 3D printing of fiber reinforced soft robotics Yap, Yee Ling Lee, Yi Wei Yeong, Wai Yee School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Progress in Additive Manufacturing (Pro-AM 2018) Singapore Centre for 3D Printing Additive Manufacturing 3D Printing DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Prototyping 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. ASTAR (Agency for Sci., Tech. and Research, S’pore) Published version 2018-09-13T06:23:43Z 2019-12-06T17:09:12Z 2018-09-13T06:23:43Z 2019-12-06T17:09:12Z 2018 Conference Paper Yap, Y. L., Lee, Y. W., & Yeong, W. Y. (2018). 3D printing of fiber reinforced soft robotics. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Progress in Additive Manufacturing (Pro-AM 2018), 631-636. doi:10.25341/D4FK5K https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88703 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45997 10.25341/D4FK5K en © 2018 Nanyang Technological University. Published by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 6 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Additive Manufacturing 3D Printing DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Prototyping Yap, Yee Ling Lee, Yi Wei Yeong, Wai Yee 3D printing of fiber reinforced soft robotics |
| title | 3D printing of fiber reinforced soft robotics |
| title_full | 3D printing of fiber reinforced soft robotics |
| title_fullStr | 3D printing of fiber reinforced soft robotics |
| title_full_unstemmed | 3D printing of fiber reinforced soft robotics |
| title_short | 3D printing of fiber reinforced soft robotics |
| title_sort | 3d printing of fiber reinforced soft robotics |
| topic | Additive Manufacturing 3D Printing DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Prototyping |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88703 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45997 |
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