(Mechanics of Biological and Soft Materials)
Symposium Organizers:
Qiming Wang, University of Southern California
qimingw@usc.edu
Christoph Keplinger, University of Colorado, Boulder
Christoph.Keplinger@colorado.edu
Symposium Technical Description
Traditional machines are primarily stiff, while most natural machines (e.g., animals) are soft. Inspired by Nature, a number of soft machines have been designed that mimic functions such as actuation, locomotion and camouflage. Other soft machines are designed to assist with disability rehabilitation or health monitoring. In particular, soft machines utilize highly deformable materials to exhibit extraordinary flexibility, sensitivity and adaptability, and this emerging field of research integrates seamlessly with a number of other fields, such as microfluidics, additive manufacturing and sensor skins. The proposed symposium will address recent experimental, computational and theoretical advances. Topics of particular interest include: (a) Soft robotics; (b) Soft actuators; (c) Soft electronics; (d) Soft sensors; (e) Soft generators and other soft power sources; (f) Advances in manufacturing and materials; and (g) Other mechanisms and functions relevant to soft machines.
Technical Program
Wednesday | W1 10:00am-11:40am
| C11-1: Mechanics of Bioinspired Soft Machines | ||
| Room 1307 |
Session Chair: Qiming Wang, Christoph Keplinger | Track C: Mechanics of Biological and Soft Materials |
| 10:00 am | Dielectric elastomer and bistable electroactive polymer materials and devices (Invited)
Qibing Pei |
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| 10:20 am | Control of soft robotic devices with no electronics (Invited)
Iain Anderson |
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| 10:40 am | Materials as machines: the functional mimicry of physiology using soft robotics (Invited)
Rob Shepherd |
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| 11:00 am | Soft robotics: sensory-active skins and fabrics for intelligent material systems
Rebecca Kramer |
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| 11:20 am | Design of a bistable dome-shaped dielectric elastomer actuators
Eesha Khare, Samuel Shian, David R. Clarke |
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