Abstract
Effective design and fabrication of 3-D electronic circuits are among the most pressing issues for future engineering. Although a variety of flexible devices have been developed, most of them are still designed two-dimensionally. In this letter, we introduce a novel idea to fabricate a 3-D wiring board. We produced the 3-D wiring board from one desktop inkjet printer by printing conductive pattern and a 2-D pattern to induce self-folding. We printed silver ink onto a paper to realize the conductive trace. Meanwhile, a 3-D structure was constructed with self-folding induced by water-based ink printed from the same printer. The paper with the silver ink self-folds along the printed line. The printed silver ink is sufficiently thin to be flexible. Even if the silver ink is already printed, the paper can self-fold or self-bend to consist the 3-D wiring board. A paper scratch driven robot was developed using this method. The robot traveled 56 mm in 15 s according to the vibration induced by the electrostatic force of the printed electrode. The size of the robot is 30 × 15 × 10 mm. This work proposes a new method to design 3-D wiring board, and shows extended possibilities for printed paper mechatronics.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 7833177 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1001-1007 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 Apr 1 |
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Keywords
- Additive manufacturing
- assembly
- papermechatronics
- self-folding robot
- soft material robotics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Biomedical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Control and Optimization
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Science Applications
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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Printed Paper Robot Driven by Electrostatic Actuator. / Shigemune, Hiroki; Maeda, Shingo; Cacucciolo, Vito; Iwata, Yoshitaka; Iwase, Eiji; Hashimoto, Shuji; Sugano, Shigeki.
In: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 2, No. 2, 7833177, 01.04.2017, p. 1001-1007.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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