TY - GEN
T1 - Design of chemo-mechanical actuator using self-oscillating gel
AU - Maeda, Shingo
AU - Hashimoto, Shuji
AU - Yoshida, Ryo
PY - 2004/12/1
Y1 - 2004/12/1
N2 - The goal of our research is to develop a chemical robot, which unlike the conventional robots with electrical power source, is powered by a chemical reaction similar to living organism. The first step in our research is to design a chemo-mechanical actuator using a self-oscillating polymer gel, which undergoes periodical swelling-deswelling process. The swelling-deswelling process generates periodical oscillation as the basic movement of the actuator. We consider our research as a basic study for constructing a new biologically-inspired robots which does not only mimic the structures and functions of living organism but also internal mechanism for force generation.
AB - The goal of our research is to develop a chemical robot, which unlike the conventional robots with electrical power source, is powered by a chemical reaction similar to living organism. The first step in our research is to design a chemo-mechanical actuator using a self-oscillating polymer gel, which undergoes periodical swelling-deswelling process. The swelling-deswelling process generates periodical oscillation as the basic movement of the actuator. We consider our research as a basic study for constructing a new biologically-inspired robots which does not only mimic the structures and functions of living organism but also internal mechanism for force generation.
KW - BZ reaction
KW - Biomimetics
KW - Chemical robot
KW - Self-oscillating gel
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:28344440943
SN - 0780386418
T3 - Proceedings - 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE ROBIO 2004
SP - 474
EP - 479
BT - Proceedings - 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE ROBIO 2004
T2 - Proceedings - 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE ROBIO 2004
Y2 - 22 August 2004 through 26 August 2004
ER -