Magnetic Soft Robot With the Triangular Head–Tail Morphology Inspired By Lateral Undulation

Manamanchaiyaporn, Laliphat; Xu, Tiantian; Wang, Xinyu

doi:10.1109/tmech.2020.2988718

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“…Anisotropic composites with chain-like microstructures due to the particle alignment can be introduced under the application of magnetic fields during the curing process [ 90 – 92 ]. Materials embedded with hard-magnetic particles can be magnetized after solidification by applying a large magnetic field to form a distributed magnetization [ 15 , 46 , 48 , 93 ]. This programming method generally requires a well-designed fixture or fixing strategy to deform the material into the desired actuation shape before being magnetized.…”

Section: Fabrication Methodsmentioning

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Multifunctional magnetic soft composites: a review

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Magnetically responsive soft materials are soft composites where magnetic fillers are embedded into soft polymeric matrices. These active materials have attracted extensive research and industrial interest due to their ability to realize fast and programmable shape changes through remote and untethered control under the application of magnetic fields. They would have many high-impact potential applications in soft robotics/devices, metamaterials, and biomedical devices. With a broad range of functional magnetic fillers, polymeric matrices, and advanced fabrication techniques, the material properties can be programmed for integrated functions, including programmable shape morphing, dynamic shape deformation-based locomotion, object manipulation and assembly, remote heat generation, as well as reconfigurable electronics. In this review, an overview of state-of-the-art developments and future perspectives in the multifunctional magnetically responsive soft materials is presented.

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Section: Fabrication Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Two research groups produced millimeter-scale soft robots able to rotate, swim and roll by varying the intensity and direction of the applied magnetic field (Hu et al, 2018;Zhang and Diller, 2018) (see Figure 2C). Similar research expanded upon this approach, adding a triangular tail and undulating gait behavior (Manamanchaiyaporn et al, 2020) (see Figure 2D). In biomedical applications, a long, thin soft microbot containing hME was guided remotely within a 3D phantom vascular network (Jeon et al, 2019).…”

Section: Hmes and Soft Robotic Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…Another approach created a wearable, magnetic skin composed of hME for multiple applications, including eye-tracking and remote gesture control when used in coordination with other sensors (Almansouri et al, 2019). Remote inputs, or onboard control methods, could build on the existing control FIGURE 2 | A compilation of hMEs and their soft robotic applications: (A) a bending hME actuator, controlled by the application of a magnetic field (Lum et al, 2016), (B) 3D printer head with electromagnet around the nozzle to program magnetic domains of the extruded hME throughout the print (Kim et al, 2018), (C) soft swimmer with varying applied fields to enable shape change and a swimming gait (Hu et al, 2018), (D) a triangular tail soft swimmer with varying magnetic domains to enable an undulating swimming motion (Manamanchaiyaporn et al, 2020), (E) origami-inspired folded fish robot swimming utilizing remote magnetic guidance (Sung et al, 2017), and (F) steerable hME-based wire, guided remotely (Kim et al, 2019).…”

Section: Hmes and Soft Robotic Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some research asserts that the electrical properties of an ME are dependent on both applied mechanical and magnetic changes (Wang et al, 2009), and it can be assumed that the magnetic properties will similarly vary. More recently, researchers created FIGURE 4 | (A) Large, bulky magnetic field generators necessary for the control of small soft robots comprised of MEs (Manamanchaiyaporn et al, 2020), (B) a rigid MRF valve, showing both traditional and jamming designs (Leps et al, 2020), (C) a magnetically-selected sME-based joule heater (Yun et al, 2019), and (D) an anisotropic hybrid sME with varying resistivity and piezoelectric properties based on the anisotropy angle of the magnetic particles (Yun et al, 2020).…”

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“… (A) Large, bulky magnetic field generators necessary for the control of small soft robots comprised of MEs (Manamanchaiyaporn et al, 2020 ), (B) a rigid MRF valve, showing both traditional and jamming designs (Leps et al, 2020 ), (C) a magnetically-selected sME-based joule heater (Yun et al, 2019 ), and (D) an anisotropic hybrid sME with varying resistivity and piezoelectric properties based on the anisotropy angle of the magnetic particles (Yun et al, 2020 ). …”

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