Biomimetic robotic artificial muscles

• Main Authors: Kim, Kwang Jin, Tan, Xiaobo, Choi, Hyouk Ryeol, Pugal, David
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: [Hackensack], N.J World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd 2013; World Scientific; World Scientific Publishing Company; WORLD SCIENTIFIC; WSPC
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Biomedical Science; Biomimetic materials; Ceramics; Muscles; New Materials; Organic conductors; Polymers; Robotics (Machine Vision, Pattern Recognition); Robots; Robots > Kinematics; Synthetic Elastomers; Modeling; PVDF; Robotics; Electroactive Polymers; Soft Actuators; Control; Biomimetics; Conjugated Polymer Actuators; Artificial Muscles; Ionic Polymer-Metal Composites; Sensors; IPMCs; EAPs; Dielectric Elastomers
• ISBN: 9814390356; 9789814390354
• DOI: 10.1142/8395

Biomimetic Robotic Artificial Muscles presents a comprehensive up-to-date overview of several types of electroactive materials with a view of using them as biomimetic artificial muscles. The purpose of the book is to provide a focused, in-depth, yet self-contained treatment of recent advances made in several promising EAP materials. In particular, ionic polymer-metal composites, conjugated polymers, and dielectric elastomers are considered. Manufacturing, physical characterization, modeling, and control of the materials are presented. Namely, the book adopts a systems perspective to integrate recent developments in material processing, actuator design, control-oriented modeling, and device and robotic applications. While the main focus is on the new developments in these subjects, an effort has been made throughout the book to provide the reader with general, basic information about the materials before going into more advanced topics. As a result, the book is very much self-contained and expected to be accessible for a reader who does not have background in EAPs.