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.
1. Cover image - p. iv 2. Title page - p. iv 3. Table of Contents - p. iv 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. List of contributors - p. xi 6. Foreword - p. xv 7. Preface - p. xvii 8. Approaching robotics and autonomous systems as an integrated materials, energy, and control problem - p. xix 9. Section A: Actuation - p. pgxlvi 10. 1: Manipulation, assembling, and actuation of nanomotors by electric tweezers - p. pgxlvi 11. 2: Artificial muscle logic devices for autonomous local control - p. 28 12. 3: Hygromorphic living materials for shape changing - p. 40 13. Section B: Mobility - p. 57 14. 4: Fluid-driven intrinsically soft robots - p. 57 15. 5: Designing Proteus: Engineering form and function for microrobotics - p. 84 16. 6: Physics approaches to natural locomotion: Every robot is an experiment - p. 108 17. 7: Robotic colloids: Engineered self-propulsion at the microscale (and smaller) - p. 127 18. Section C: Control Theory and Algorithms - Logic and Proxy Electronic Functions – Algorithmic Materials - p. 177 19. 8: Soft timer: Dynamic clock embedded in soft body - p. 177 20. 9: Algorithmic materials: Embedding computation within material properties for autonomy - p. 196 21. 10: Achieving self-sustained motion of particles in solution with chemical pumps - p. 221 22. 11: Topology optimization for robotics applications - p. 249 23. Section D: Integration - p. 292 24. 12: Robotic materials for robot autonomy - p. 292 25. 13: 3D printed electronic materials and devices - p. 307 26. 14: Additive manufacturing of soft robots - p. 334 27. 15: Synthetic Cells: Colloidal-sized state machines - p. 359 28. Section E: Energy - p. 386 29. 16: Energy harvesting techniques mediated by molecular interactions with nanostructured carbon materials - p. 386 30. 17: Mechanics of fluid-elastomer systems in soft robotics - p. 424 31. 18: Structural power, energy, actuation, and mobility in intelligently directed systems enabled from nanocrystalline metals - p. 448 32. Section F: Novel Robotics as Material Platforms - p. 474 33. 19: Super materials and robots making robots: Challenges and opportunities in robotic building at the microstructural level - p. 474 34. 20: Materials design for robotic platforms enabling unique mechanisms of projectile protection - p. 492 35. 21: The confluence of intelligent agents and materials to enable protection of humans in extreme and dangerous environments - p. 521 36. Index - p. 547
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.
1. Cover image - p. iv 2. Title page - p. iv 3. Table of Contents - p. iv 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. List of contributors - p. xi 6. Foreword - p. xv 7. Preface - p. xvii 8. Approaching robotics and autonomous systems as an integrated materials, energy, and control problem - p. xix 9. Section A: Actuation - p. pgxlvi 10. 1: Manipulation, assembling, and actuation of nanomotors by electric tweezers - p. pgxlvi 11. 2: Artificial muscle logic devices for autonomous local control - p. 28 12. 3: Hygromorphic living materials for shape changing - p. 40 13. Section B: Mobility - p. 57 14. 4: Fluid-driven intrinsically soft robots - p. 57 15. 5: Designing Proteus: Engineering form and function for microrobotics - p. 84 16. 6: Physics approaches to natural locomotion: Every robot is an experiment - p. 108 17. 7: Robotic colloids: Engineered self-propulsion at the microscale (and smaller) - p. 127 18. Section C: Control Theory and Algorithms - Logic and Proxy Electronic Functions – Algorithmic Materials - p. 177 19. 8: Soft timer: Dynamic clock embedded in soft body - p. 177 20. 9: Algorithmic materials: Embedding computation within material properties for autonomy - p. 196 21. 10: Achieving self-sustained motion of particles in solution with chemical pumps - p. 221 22. 11: Topology optimization for robotics applications - p. 249 23. Section D: Integration - p. 292 24. 12: Robotic materials for robot autonomy - p. 292 25. 13: 3D printed electronic materials and devices - p. 307 26. 14: Additive manufacturing of soft robots - p. 334 27. 15: Synthetic Cells: Colloidal-sized state machines - p. 359 28. Section E: Energy - p. 386 29. 16: Energy harvesting techniques mediated by molecular interactions with nanostructured carbon materials - p. 386 30. 17: Mechanics of fluid-elastomer systems in soft robotics - p. 424 31. 18: Structural power, energy, actuation, and mobility in intelligently directed systems enabled from nanocrystalline metals - p. 448 32. Section F: Novel Robotics as Material Platforms - p. 474 33. 19: Super materials and robots making robots: Challenges and opportunities in robotic building at the microstructural level - p. 474 34. 20: Materials design for robotic platforms enabling unique mechanisms of projectile protection - p. 492 35. 21: The confluence of intelligent agents and materials to enable protection of humans in extreme and dangerous environments - p. 521 36. Index - p. 547
