Day 3: (Wed Jan 22, Week 2) Lateral Literature Search

Notes for 2025-01-22.

New Assignments

• Due Sunday night: Exercise: Peer Review. Please submit to Exercise 3 Shared Folder. I have also provided a template form you may duplicate.

• Looking ahead: next week we’ll survey art literature related to soft kinetic sculpture.

Administrative

Reminder: please be sure to qualify for access to the IDeATe laser cutters: see IDeATe Laser Cutters.

Agenda

1. Review of results for Exercise: Lateral Literature Search in Exercise 2 Shared Folder.
   
   

2. Mid-class break.
   
   

3. Discussion of peer review and new assignment.

4. Discussion of means and materials.

   • Silicone Rubber

   • Casting Equipment

   • Design Example: Open Molded Soft Silicone Flexure

   • Design Example: Open Molded Soft Silicone Actuator

   • S25 materials guide

   • IDeATe 3D Printing Guide

   • SolidWorks Overview

   • DC Motor Pump Guide

   • Raspberry Pi Pico

Exercise 2 Bibliography

• [R2] E. M. Bahçeci and A. Erbaş, “Contraction response of a polyelectrolyte hydrogel to nonuniformly applied electric fields,” Soft Matter, vol. 20, no. 48, pp. 9673–9682, Dec. 2024, doi: 10.1039/D4SM01000K.

• [R3] G. Battocletti, D. Boskos, D. Tolić, I. Palunko, and B. de Schutter, “Entanglement Definitions for Tethered Robots: Exploration and Analysis,” IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 178153–178170, 2024, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3507217.

• [R9] Z. Chen, S. Shatara, and X. Tan, “Modeling of Biomimetic Robotic Fish Propelled by An Ionic Polymer–Metal Composite Caudal Fin,” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 448–459, Jun. 2010, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2009.2027812.

• [R16] M. Fok, Q. Liu, and M. Yang, “Biomimicry in Microwave Photonic and Fiber Optic Sensors Embedded Soft Robotics,” in 2022 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), Mar. 2022, pp. 01–03. Accessed: Jan. 22, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9748388

• [R44] J. Liao, X. Bao, M. Park, and M. Sitti, “Energetically Autonomous Soft Robots: An Embodied Actuation Strategy by Liquid Metal Metabolism,” in 2024 International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS), Jul. 2024, pp. 1–8. doi: 10.1109/MARSS61851.2024.10612728.

• [R82] A. N. Md. A. Siddiquee and Y. Ozkan-Aydin, “Utilizing Bioinspired Soft Modular Appendages for Grasping and Locomotion in Multi-Legged Robots on Ground and Underwater,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 3862–3869, Apr. 2024, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2024.3372834.

• [R95] X. Wang, X. Pei, X. Wang, and T. Hou, “Bionic Robot Manta Ray Based on Dielectric Elastomer Actuator,” in 2023 International Conference on Frontiers of Robotics and Software Engineering (FRSE), Jun. 2023, pp. 387–392. doi: 10.1109/FRSE58934.2023.00060.

• [R94] C. Wang, T. Zhao, W. Cheng, Z. Ni, and N. Xiang, “Microfluidic strategies in soft robotics: Actuators, control systems, and pumps,” Device, vol. 2, no. 9, p. 100551, Sep. 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.device.2024.100551.

• [R108] Y. Yim, Y. Noguchi, and F. Tanaka, “A wearable soft robot that can alleviate the pain and fear of the wearer,” Sci Rep, vol. 12, no. 1, Art. no. 1, Oct. 2022, doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-21183-7.

• [R111]] Y. Zheng, F. Asano, C. Yan, L. Li, and I. T. Tokuda, “Tensegrity-Based Legged Robot Generates Passive Walking, Skipping, and Crawling Gaits in Accordance With Environment,” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, pp. 1–12, 2025, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2024.3522904.