Soft Actuators: Materials, Modeling, Applications, and Future Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9789811368493 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 740 str.

Kinji Asaka; Hidenori Okuzaki

Opis

This book reviews research and development of soft actuators, covering materials, methods of synthesis, fabrication and measurements. Includes color figures, diagrams and photographs clearly describing the mechanism, apparatus and motion of soft actuators.

Spis treści

Part I  Introduction

1. Progress and Current Status of Materials and Properties of Soft Actuators              

Hidenori Okuzaki

2. Current Status of Applications and Markets of Soft Actuators

Kinji Asaka and Kayo Nakamura

 

Part II  Materials of Soft Actuators: Thermo-Driven Soft Actuators

3. Electromagnetic Heating

Takeshi Yamauchi

4. Thermo-Responsive Nanofiber Mats Fabricated by Electrospinning           

Hidenori Okuzaki

5. Evolution of Self-Oscillating Polymer Gels as Autonomous Soft Actuators

Ryo Yoshida

6. Polyrotaxane Actuators

Abu Bin Imran, Mohammad Harun-Ur-Rashid, and Yukikazu Takeoka

 

Part III  Materials of Soft Actuators: Electro-Driven Soft Actuators

7. Ionic Conductive Polymers

Kunitomo Kikuchi and Shigeki Tsuchitani

8. Conducting Polymers

Keiichi Kaneto

9. Humidity-Sensitive Conducting Polymer Actuators

Hidenori Okuzaki

10. Carbon Nanotube/Ionic Liquid Composites

Takushi Sugino, Kenji Kiyohara, and Kinji Asaka

11. Ion Gels for Ionic Polymer Actuators

Masayoshi Watanabe, Satoru Imaizumi, Tomohiro Yasuda, and Hisashi Kokubo

12. Ionic Liquid/Polyurethane/PEDOT:PSS Composite Actuators

Hidenori Okuzaki

13. Dielectric Gels

Toshihiro Hirai

14. Dielectric Elastomers

Seiki Chiba

15. Piezoelectric Polymers

Yoshiro Tajitsu

16. Thermal and Electrical Actuation of Liquid Crystal Elastomers/Gels

Kenji Urayama

 

Part IV  Materials of Soft Actuators: Light-Driven Soft Actuators

17. Spiropyran-Functionalized Hydrogels

Kimio Sumaru, Toshiyuki Takagi, Shinji Sugiura, and Toshiyuki Kanamori

18. Photomechanical Energy Conversion with Cross-Linked Liquid-Crystalline Polymers

Jun-ichi Mamiya

19. Photoredox Reaction

Tetsu Tatsuma

 

Part V  Materials of Soft Actuators: Magneto-Driven Soft Actuators

20. Magnetic Fluid Composite Gels

Toshihiro Hirai

21. Magnetic Particle Composite Gels

Tetsu Mitsumata

 

Part VI  Modeling

22. Molecular Mechanism of Electrically Induced Volume Change of Porous Electrodes

Kenji Kiyohara, Takushi Sugino, and Kinji Asaka

23. Computational Modeling of Mechanical Sensors Using Ionic Electro-Active Polymers

Yutaka Toi and Seongwon Yoo

24. Distributed Parameter System Modeling

Kentaro Takagi, Gou Nishida, Bernhard Maschke, and Kinji Asaka

25. Control of Electro-Active Polymer Actuators with Considering Characteristics Changes

Norihiro Kamamichi

26. Motion Design-A Gel Robot Approach

Mihoko Otake

27. Motion Control

Minoru Hashimoto

28. IPMC Actuation Mechanisms and Multi-Physical Modeling

Zicai Zhu, Hualing Chen, and Longfei Chang

29. Sensing Properties and Physical Model of Ionic Polymer

Zicai Zhu, Hualing Chen, and Yanjie Wang

30. Modelling of Dielectric Elastomer Actuator

Bo Li, Hualing Chen, and Guimin Chen

31. Modelling of Dielectric Gel using Multi-Physics Coupling Theory

Bo Li, Longfei Chang, and Yanjie Wang

32. Modeling and Control of Fishing-Line/Sewing-Thread Artificial Muscles (Twisted and Coiled Polymer Fibers, TCPFs)

Kentaro Takagi, Norihiro Kamamichi, Ken Masuya,

Kenji Tahara, Toshihira Irisawa, and Kinji Asaka

 

Part VII  Applications

33. Underwater Soft Robots

Kentaro Takagi, Zhi-Wei Luo, and Kinji Asaka

34. IPMC Actuator-Based Multifunctional Underwater Microrobots

Shuxiang Guo and Liwei Shi

35. Medical Applications

Tadashi Ihara and Taro Nakamura

36. Elastomer Transducers

Mikio Waki and Seiki Chiba

37. Dielectric Elastomer Sensors: Development of Stretchable Strain Sensor System

Hideo Otaka

 

Part VIII  Next-Generation Bio-Actuators

38. Tissue Engineering Approach to Making Soft Actuators

Toshia Fujisato, Shunya Takagi, Tomohiro Nakamura, and Hiroshi Tsutsui

39. Integration of Soft Actuators based on a Biomolecular Motor System to Develop Artificial Machines

Jakia Jannat Keya, Kentaro Kayano, Arif Md. Rashedul Kabir, and Akira Kakugo

40. Employing Cytoskeletal Treadmilling in Bio-Actuators

Ryuzo Kawamura, Ken-Ichi Sano, and Yoshihito Osada

 

O autorze

Kinji Asaka received his Ph.D. degree in Science from Kyoto University in 1990. He is currently a Group Leader of Hybrid Actuator Group, Inorganic Functional Material Research Institute at AIST. His current research interests include interfacial electrochemistry and polymer actuators. He is a member of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan and the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers.

Hidenori Okuzaki received his Ph.D. degree in Science from Hokkaido University in 1994. Since 1994, he has been working on organic electronics using conductive polymers as an assistant professor of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Yamanashi. He has been an associate professor in 2003 and he has dealt with conducting micro- and nano-fibers, and organic field-effect transistors. Since 2014, he has been a professor of the Graduate Faculty of Interdisciplinary Research, University of Yamanashi and he has been focusing on the synthesis of highly conductive polymers and applications to soft sensors and actuators for organic robotics.

Blurb

This book is the second edition of Soft Actuators, originally published in 2014, with 12 chapters added to the first edition. The subject of this new edition is current comprehensive research and development of soft actuators, covering interdisciplinary study of materials science, mechanics, electronics, robotics, and bioscience. The book includes contemporary research of actuators based on biomaterials for their potential in future artificial muscle technology. Readers will find detailed and useful information about materials, methods of synthesis, fabrication, and measurements to study soft actuators. Additionally, the topics of materials, modeling, and applications not only promote the further research and development of soft actuators, but bring benefits for utilization and industrialization. This volume makes generous use of color figures, diagrams, and photographs that provide easy-to-understand descriptions of the mechanisms, apparatus, and motions of soft actuators. Also, in this second edition the chapters on modeling, materials design, and device design have been given a wider scope and made easier to comprehend, which will be helpful in practical applications of soft actuators. Readers of this work can acquire the newest technology and information about basic science and practical applications of flexible, lightweight, and noiseless soft actuators, which differ from conventional mechanical engines and electric motors. This new edition of Soft Actuators will inspire readers with fresh ideas and encourage their research and development, thus opening up a new field of applications for the utilization and industrialization of soft actuators.