Daniel Zhu

Sketches:

Silicone heart sketches. Deciding between having two chambers, 4 chambers, etc. Could be made with a two part mode or with an open mode.

Materials + Equipment:

  • Near clear Ecoflex Silicone
  • Low pressure hydraulic pump
  • Water Reservoir/tank
  • Syringe/hand pump
  • Dyes (Red/Blue)
  • Valves
  • Tubes

Joint Bibliography:

Paper | Design and Characterization of a Miniature Hydraulic Power Supply for High-Bandwidth Control of Soft Robotics

While this paper did not have too much direct application to our project, it describes the parameters a power source might have to sufficiently power hydraulics for a soft robotic application.

Padovani, Damiano, and Eric J. Barth. “Design and Characterization of a Miniature Hydraulic Power Supply for High-Bandwidth Control of Soft Robotics.” In 2020 3rd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), 345–50, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1109/RoboSoft48309.2020.9116049.


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