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Recyclable Thin-Film Soft Electronics for Smart Packaging and E-Skins
Manuel Reis Carneiro, Anibal T. de Almeida, Mahmoud Tavakoli +1
Despite advances in soft, sticker_like electronics, few efforts have dealt with the challenge of electronic waste. Here, this is addressed by introducing an eco friendly conductive…
Graphene-Assisted Chemical Stabilization of Liquid Metal Nano Droplets for Liquid Metal Based Energy Storage
Afsaneh L. Sanati, Timur Nikitin, Rui Fausto +2
Energy storage devices with liquid_metal electrodes have attracted interest in recent years due to their potential for mechanical resilience, self_healing, dendrite_free operation,…
Exploiting Instabilities to Enable Large Shape Transformations in Dielectric Elastomers
Daniel Katusele, Carmel Majidi, Pradeep Sharma +1
Dielectric elastomers have significant potential for new technologies ranging from soft robots to biomedical devices, driven by their ability to display complex shape changes in re…
Statistical Field Theory of Polarizable Polymer Chains with Nonlocal Dipolar Interactions
Pratik Khandagale, Carlos Garcia-Cervera, Gal deBotton +3
The electromechanical response of polymeric soft matter to applied electric fields is of fundamental scientific interest as well as relevant to technologies for sensing and actuati…
Statistical field theory for nonlinear elasticity of polymer networks with excluded volume interactions
Pratik Khandagale, Timothy Breitzman, Carmel Majidi +1
Polymer networks formed by cross linking flexible polymer chains are ubiquitous in many natural and synthetic soft-matter systems. Current micromechanics models generally do not ac…
A Multimodal Sensing Ring for Quantification of Scratch Intensity
Akhil Padmanabha, Sonal Choudhary, Carmel Majidi +1
An objective measurement of chronic itch is necessary for improvements in patient care for numerous medical conditions. While wearables have shown promise for scratch detection, th…
Design and Characterization of Viscoelastic McKibben Actuators with Tunable Force-Velocity Curves
Michael J. Bennington, Tuo Wang, Jiaguo Yin +3
The McKibben pneumatic artificial muscle is a commonly studied soft robotic actuator, and its quasistatic force-length properties have been well characterized and modeled. However,…
Acoustic Localization and Communication Using a MEMS Microphone for Low-cost and Low-power Bio-inspired Underwater Robots
Akshay Hinduja, Yunsik Ohm, Jiahe Liao +2
Having accurate localization capabilities is one of the fundamental requirements of autonomous robots. For underwater vehicles, the choices for effective localization are limited d…
All the Feels: A dexterous hand with large-area tactile sensing
Raunaq Bhirangi, Abigail DeFranco, Jacob Adkins +4
High cost and lack of reliability has precluded the widespread adoption of dexterous hands in robotics. Furthermore, the lack of a viable tactile sensor capable of sensing over the…
Safe Balancing Control of a Soft Legged Robot
Ran Jing, Meredith L. Anderson, Miguel Ianus-Valdivia +3
Legged robots constructed from soft materials are commonly claimed to demonstrate safer, more robust environmental interactions than their rigid counterparts. However, this motivat…
Safe Supervisory Control of Soft Robot Actuators
Andrew P. Sabelhaus, Zach J. Patterson, Anthony T. Wertz +1
Although soft robots show safer interactions with their environment than traditional robots, soft mechanisms and actuators still have significant potential for damage or degradatio…
In-Situ Sensing and Dynamics Predictions for Electrothermally-Actuated Soft Robot Limbs
Andrew P. Sabelhaus, Rohan K. Mehta, Anthony T. Wertz +1
Untethered soft robots that locomote using electrothermally-responsive materials like shape memory alloy (SMA) face challenging design constraints for sensing actuator states. At t…
ReSkin: versatile, replaceable, lasting tactile skins
Raunaq Bhirangi, Tess Hellebrekers, Carmel Majidi +1
Soft sensors have continued growing interest in robotics, due to their ability to enable both passive conformal contact from the material properties and active contact data from th…
Robust Control of a Multi-Axis Shape Memory Alloy-Driven Soft Manipulator
Zach J. Patterson, Andrew P. Sabelhaus, Carmel Majidi
Control of soft robotic manipulators remains a challenge for designs with advanced capabilities and novel actuation. Two significant limitations are multi-axis, three-dimensional m…
Trajectory Optimization for Thermally-Actuated Soft Planar Robot Limbs
Anthony Wertz, Andrew P. Sabelhaus, Carmel Majidi
Practical use of robotic manipulators made from soft materials requires generating and executing complex motions. We present the first approach for generating trajectories of a the…
Nonlinear Statistical Mechanics Drives Intrinsic Electrostriction and Volumetric Torque in Polymer Networks
Matthew Grasinger, Carmel Majidi, Kaushik Dayal
Statistical mechanics is an important tool for understanding polymer electroelasticity because the elasticity of polymers is primarily due to entropy. However, a common approach fo…
An Untethered Brittle Star-Inspired Soft Robot for Closed-Loop Underwater Locomotion
Zach J. Patterson, Andrew P. Sabelhaus, Keene Chin +2
Soft robots are capable of inherently safer interactions with their environment than rigid robots since they can mechanically deform in response to unanticipated stimuli. However,…
Continuum Elasticity Theory Approach for Spontaneous Bending and Twisting of Ribbons Induced by Mechanical Anisotropy
Zi Chen, Carmel Majidi, David J. Srolovitz +1
Helical ribbons arise in many biological and engineered systems, often driven by anisotropic surface stress, residual strain, and geometric or elastic mismatch between layers of a…
Nonlinear geometric effects in mechanical bistable morphing structures
Zi Chen, Qiaohang Guo, Carmel Majidi +3
Bistable structures associated with non-linear deformation behavior, exemplified by the Venus flytrap and slap bracelet, can switch between different functional shapes upon actuati…