My starting paper was called OmniFiber: Integrated Fluidic Fiber Actuators for Weaving Movement based Interactions into the ‘Fabric of Everyday Life’. I chose this paper because I’m interested to see how pneumatics and soft robotics can be combined with textiles to create a dynamic garment, one that can, for example, change its shape. The paper discusses thin fibers that contain silicone tubes for fluid to flow through, and that can actuate by contracting or expanding. Thus when they are sewn into fabric, they can allow the fabric to expand and contract in multiple ways.
After reading through the paper, because it mentions that OmniFiber is based off of McKibben contractible muscle fiber and McKibber extensible muscle fiber, I decided to choose a source related to McKibben muscle fibers using ACM Digital Library. Of the 85 references, “Active Textile braided in three strands with thin McKibben muscle” seemed the most relevant to both McKibben fibers and textiles. I used Google Scholar to sift through the titles of the 14 papers that had cited this paper.
I found three citations related to textiles and autonomous garments:
The first is called “Soft Robotic Gloves with Thin McKibben Muscles for Hand Assist and Rehabilitation”. This paper demonstrates a soft robotic rehabilitation glove that uses McKibben muscles to extend and flex fingers. This is relevant because it involves fabric being animated to perform a motion, in this case, moving the fingers to grip items.
The second is called “Textile Technology for Soft Robotic and Autonomous Garments”. This survey paper covers uses of robotic textiles as locomotive assisters, shape changers, communicative devices, and regulators of body temperature. It also covers different types of fibers, yarns, textile structures, and textile global shapes.
The third is called “A Wearable Soft Fabric Sleeve for Upper Limb Augmentation”, and it demonstrates a new class of soft actuator that is designed to be embedded into fabrics and help users work against heavy loads.
Citations
Starting Paper:
Ozgun Kilic Afsar, Ali Shtarbanov, Hila Mor, Ken Nakagaki, Jack Forman, Karen Modrei, Seung Hee Jeong, Klas Hjort, Kristina Höök, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2021. OmniFiber: Integrated Fluidic Fiber Actuators for Weaving Movement based Interactions into the ‘Fabric of Everyday Life’ The 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1010–1026. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3472749.3474802
Root Paper:
Kurumaya, Shunichi, et al. “Active textile braided in three strands with thin McKibben muscle.” Soft robotics 6.2 (2019): 250-262. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1089/soro.2018.0076
Related papers:
Sanchez, Vanessa, Conor J. Walsh, and Robert J. Wood. “Textile technology for soft robotic and autonomous garments.” Advanced Functional Materials 31.6 (2021): 2008278. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202008278
S. Koizumi et al., “Soft Robotic Gloves with Thin McKibben Muscles for Hand Assist and Rehabilitation,” 2020 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII), 2020, pp. 93-98, doi: 10.1109/SII46433.2020.9025832.
Hoang TT, Sy L, Bussu M, Thai MT, Low H, Phan PT, Davies J, Nguyen CC, Lovell NH, Do TN. A Wearable Soft Fabric Sleeve for Upper Limb Augmentation. Sensors. 2021; 21(22):7638. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21227638