TY - GEN
T1 - Design of paper mechatronics
T2 - 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2014
AU - Shigemune, Hiroki
AU - Maeda, Shingo
AU - Hara, Yusuke
AU - Hashimoto, Shuji
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/10/31
Y1 - 2014/10/31
N2 - Recently, there has been strong interest in printed robots and paper electronics. Printing is an adequate manufacturing method for the mass production; robots manufactured by printing can be low cost, rapidly creatable and easy to design. Paper is one of smart materials with high water absorbency and strength; it is easily mass-produced at low cost. Many inexpensive and flexible devices were created in paper electronics. Therefore, we propose paper mechatronics that merges printed robots and paper electronics. We used a commercial ink jet printer with water-based ink for self-folding of paper; the paper was folded automatically along the printed line to make the robot body. The paper robot was equipped with a printed electrothermal actuator that consists of epoxy resin covered by conductive ink. The epoxy resin was heated by Joule heat of the conductive ink under a driving voltage of 8 V. The self-folding of experimental paper robot took 15 minutes to construct the body and the robot demonstrated a locomotion at 6.5 mm per step.
AB - Recently, there has been strong interest in printed robots and paper electronics. Printing is an adequate manufacturing method for the mass production; robots manufactured by printing can be low cost, rapidly creatable and easy to design. Paper is one of smart materials with high water absorbency and strength; it is easily mass-produced at low cost. Many inexpensive and flexible devices were created in paper electronics. Therefore, we propose paper mechatronics that merges printed robots and paper electronics. We used a commercial ink jet printer with water-based ink for self-folding of paper; the paper was folded automatically along the printed line to make the robot body. The paper robot was equipped with a printed electrothermal actuator that consists of epoxy resin covered by conductive ink. The epoxy resin was heated by Joule heat of the conductive ink under a driving voltage of 8 V. The self-folding of experimental paper robot took 15 minutes to construct the body and the robot demonstrated a locomotion at 6.5 mm per step.
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U2 - 10.1109/IROS.2014.6942611
DO - 10.1109/IROS.2014.6942611
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84911499398
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
SP - 536
EP - 541
BT - IROS 2014 Conference Digest - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 14 September 2014 through 18 September 2014
ER -