TY - GEN
T1 - Chemical robot - Design of peristaltic polymer gel actuator
AU - Maeda, Shingo
AU - Hara, Yusuke
AU - Yoshida, Ryo
AU - Hashimoto, Shuji
PY - 2009/12/11
Y1 - 2009/12/11
N2 - In this proceeding, we introduce peristaltic gel actuators as a chemical robot. The polymer gels prepared here have a cyclic reaction network like metabolic process in itself. With a cyclic reaction, the polymer gel swells-shrinks autonomously. The periodic self-oscillating motion of the gel is produced by the dissipating chemical energy of the oscillatory Belouzov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction. We have succeeded in convey the object automatically by utilizing the synthetic polymer gel. This experimental fact represents the great possibility of the chemical robot.
AB - In this proceeding, we introduce peristaltic gel actuators as a chemical robot. The polymer gels prepared here have a cyclic reaction network like metabolic process in itself. With a cyclic reaction, the polymer gel swells-shrinks autonomously. The periodic self-oscillating motion of the gel is produced by the dissipating chemical energy of the oscillatory Belouzov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction. We have succeeded in convey the object automatically by utilizing the synthetic polymer gel. This experimental fact represents the great possibility of the chemical robot.
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U2 - 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354633
DO - 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354633
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:76249084222
SN - 9781424438044
T3 - 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009
SP - 4325
EP - 4330
BT - 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009
T2 - 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009
Y2 - 11 October 2009 through 15 October 2009
ER -