
Robotic Systems and Autonomous Platforms
Advances in Materials and Manufacturing
Description
Key Features
- 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
Readership
Researchers and engineers working in the fields of robotics, autonomous systems, and processing science and manufacturing technologies
Table of Contents
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 YaoSection 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. MoranSection 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 GaynorSection 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. StranoSection 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. WalshSection 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
Product details
- No. of pages: 603
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Woodhead Publishing 2018
- Published: October 11, 2018
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081022603
- eBook ISBN: 9780081020487
About the Editors
Shawn M. Walsh
Affiliations and Expertise
Michael S. Strano
Affiliations and Expertise
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