Robotic Systems and Autonomous Platforms

Section A Actuation
1. Manipulation, assembling, and actuation of nanomotors by electric tweezers
Donglei (Emma) Fan
2. Artificial muscle logic devices for autonomous local control
E.-F. Markus Henke, Katherine E. Wilson, Geoffrey A. Slipher, Randy A. Mrozek, Iain A. Anderson
3. Hygromorphic living materials for shape changing
Lining Yao

Section B Mobility
4. Fluid-driven intrinsically soft robots
Robert Shepherd, Kirstin Petersen
5. Designing Proteus: Engineering form and function for microrobotics
Remmi Baker, Allan M. Brooks, Ayusman Sen
6. Physics approaches to natural locomotion: Every robot is an experiment
Yasemin Ozkan Aydin, Jennifer M. Rieser, Christian M. Hubicki, William Savoie, Daniel I. Goldman
7. Robotic colloids: Engineered self-propulsion at the microscale (and smaller)
Jeffrey L. Moran

Section C Control Theory and Algorithms – Logic and Proxy Electronic Functions – Algorithmic Materials
8. Soft timer: Dynamic clock embedded in soft body
Kohei Nakajima, Tao Li, Nozomi Akashi
9. Algorithmic materials: Embedding computation within material properties for autonomy
Ana Pervan, Todd Murphey
10. Achieving self-sustained motion of particles in solution with chemical pumps
Oleg E. Shklyaev, Henry Shum, Anna C. Balazs
11. Topology optimization for robotics applications
Raymond Wildman, Andrew Gaynor

Section D Integration
12. Robotic materials for robot autonomy
Nikolaus Correl
13. 3D printed electronic materials and devices
Ruitao Su, Sung Hyun Park, Zhaohan Li, Michael C. McAlpine
14. Additive manufacturing of soft robots
S. Walker, O.D. Yirmibesoglu, U. Daalkhaijav, Y. Menguc
15. Synthetic cells, or colloidal state machines, with two-dimensional materials
Jingfan Yang, Volodymyr B. Koman, Pingwei Liu, Tianxian Liu, Michael S. Strano

Section E Energy
16. Energy harvesting techniques mediated by molecular interactions with nanostructured carbon materials
Albert Tianxiang Liu, Ge Zhang, Michael S. Strano
17. Mechanics of fluid-elastomer systems in soft robotics
Carmel Majidi
18. Structural power, energy, actuation, and mobility in intelligently directed systems enabled from nanocrystalline metals
Anit K. Giri, Kristopher A. Darling, Shawn M. Walsh

Section F Novel Robotics as Material Platforms
19.  Materials design for robotic platforms enabling unique mechanisms of projectile protection
Pingwei Liu, Michael S. Strano
20. The confluence of intelligent agents and materials to enable protection of humans in extreme and dangerous environments
Shawn M. Walsh, Daniel M. Baechle
21 Super materials and robots making robots: Challenges and opportunities in robotic building at the microstructural level
Ron Pelrine

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

Researchers and engineers working in the fields of robotics, autonomous systems, and processing science and manufacturing technologies