{"id":4186,"date":"2023-01-23T10:48:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T15:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-480\/s2022\/?p=4186"},"modified":"2023-01-23T16:03:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T21:03:50","slug":"reading-searching-and-skimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-480\/s2022\/4186\/reading-searching-and-skimming\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading, Searching, and Skimming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>Paper 1: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Thermally Tunable, Self-Healing Composites for Soft Robotic Applications<\/span> (citation 40)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Polyurethane foams and 3D-printed lattice structures were covered in wax and tested at various temperatures. The results indicated that wax-coated structures have the potential to act as a much more controllable medium for robotics, allowing for controlled changes and repairs to be made to the structure&#8217;s stiffness modulus through temperature change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cheng, N.G., Gopinath, A., Wang, L., Iagnemma, K. and Hosoi, A.E. (2014), Thermally Tunable, Self-Healing Composites for Soft Robotic Applications. Macromol. Mater. Eng., 299: 1279-1284.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/mame.201400017\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/mame.201400017<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3>Paper 2: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Puffy, a friendly inflatable social robot<\/span> (S21 R75)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This paper (and supplementary video) discusses the purpose and features of a Baymax-esque soft robot designed to improve children&#8217;s learning environments. The video demonstrates a classroom application of the technology using a conceptual prototype, however neither it nor the article go into technical depth. That being said, it is made clear that the multi-sense interactivity and target aura of Puffy is largely possible due to it being a soft robot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Alessandro Ubaldi, Mirko Gelsomini, Marzia Degiorgi, Giulia Leonardi, Simone Penati, No\u00eblie Ramuzat, Jacopo Silvestri, and Franca Garzotto. Puffy, a friendly inflatable social robot. In&nbsp;<em>Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems<\/em>, CHI EA &#8217;18, 1. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3170427.3186595\">doi:10.1145\/3170427.3186595<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3>Paper 3: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Electroactive textile actuators for wearable and soft robots<\/span> (IEEE) <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are thin, multilayered membranes that physically deform as a result of a voltage being applied. This paper tested the relative change in top surface area as a result of small voltages (9kV and 6kV) being applied to multiple DEA configurations. This technology can harness this deformation to create specific movements and ultimately achieve actuation from a voltage supply. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>J.&nbsp;Guo, C.&nbsp;Xiang, T.&nbsp;Helps, M.&nbsp;Taghavi, and J.&nbsp;Rossiter. Electroactive textile actuators for wearable and soft robots. In&nbsp;<em>2018 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft)<\/em>, 339\u2013343. April 2018.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/ROBOSOFT.2018.8404942\">doi:10.1109\/ROBOSOFT.2018.8404942<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paper 1: Thermally Tunable, Self-Healing Composites for Soft Robotic Applications (citation 40) Polyurethane foams and 3D-printed lattice structures were covered in wax and tested at various temperatures. The results indicated that wax-coated structures have the potential to act as a much more controllable medium for robotics, allowing for controlled changes and repairs to be made<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-480\/s2022\/4186\/reading-searching-and-skimming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reading, Searching, and Skimming<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-480\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-480\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-480\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-480\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-480\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4186"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-480\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4199,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-480\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions\/4199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-480\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-480\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-480\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}