Electroactive Polymer Artificial Muscles Enabled RoboFish

dc.contributor.authorChen, Zheng
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-25T16:32:51Z
dc.date.available2019-10-25T16:32:51Z
dc.date.issued2019-10-23
dc.description.abstractAutonomous underwater robots are highly demanded in environmental monitoring, intelligent collection, and deep water exploration. Recent years have witnessed significant effort in development of bio-inspired underwater robots to mimic aquatic animals, such as robotic fish, robotic jelly fish, and robotic manta ray, to achieve high energy propulsion efficiency and maneuvering capabilities. Novel actuating materials, which are lightweight, soft, and capable of generating large flapping motion under electrical stimuli, are highly desirable to build such bio-inspired robotic fish. Electroactive polymers (EAPS) are emerging smart materials that can generate large deformations under electrical stimuli. As an important category of ionic EAPs, Ionic Polymer-Metal Composites (IPMCs) can work under wet conditions with low actuation voltages, which shows their great potential as artificial muscles in bio-inspired underwater robots. In this talk, a systems perspective is taken, from modeling, control, fabrication, and bio-inspired design, which addresses the most challenges in this research area. Three types of bio-inspired underwater robots using artificial muscles will be presented in this talk, including robotic fish, robotic manta ray, and artificial swimming bladder. Advantages and challenges of using IPMC artificial muscles in bio-inspired robots will be concluded at the end.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10657/5044
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectautonomous underwater robotsen_US
dc.subjectenvironmental monitoringen_US
dc.subjectintelligent collectionen_US
dc.subjectdeep water explorationen_US
dc.subjectrobotic fishen_US
dc.subjectIonic Polymer-Metal Compositesen_US
dc.subjectElectroactive polymersen_US
dc.subjectAutonomous underwater robots
dc.subjectEnvironmental monitoring
dc.subjectIntelligent collection
dc.subjectDeep water exploration
dc.subjectRobotic fish
dc.subjectIonic Polymer-Metal Composites
dc.subjectElectroactive polymers
dc.titleElectroactive Polymer Artificial Muscles Enabled RoboFishen_US
dc.typePresentationen_US

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