{"id":2398,"date":"2016-09-28T20:47:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T20:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bioeng.nus.edu.sg\/mm\/?p=2398"},"modified":"2016-09-28T20:47:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T20:47:55","slug":"lxqmicrosoro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/projects\/lxqmicrosoro\/","title":{"rendered":"Shape Morphing Microscale Soft Robotic Actuators"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>The micro actuator has been studied for its application in micro operations such as manipulating cellular aggregate, the tissues or drug delivery. The traditional actuation methods include thermo-mechanical actuation, electromagnetic actuation, electrostatic actuation and pneumatic actuation. Among these actuation methods, pneumatic actuation has the advantage of not generating heat and current during actuation.<br \/>\nWe investigate<br \/>\n1) a streamlined and standardized fabrication procedure to make sub-millimeter scale soft pneumatic actuators (SPA) with customizable bending modalities achieved by shape engineering. Preliminary models are also given to interpret width-based shape engineering for customization and to compare the bending angle and radius of curvature measured from the characterization experiments.<br \/>\n2) a new micro pneumatic actuator consisting of two biocompatible materials is designed, fabricated and tested. The actuator has one bending degree of freedom and the largest bending deformation is about 115\u00b0.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lxqRALSPAPdms-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2411\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lxqRALSPAPdms-1-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lxqRALSPAPdms-1-300x160.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lxqRALSPAPdms-1-150x80.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/lxqRALSPAPdms-1.jpg 633w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Publications<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>X. Liang; Y. Sun &amp; H. Ren A Flexible Fabrication Approach towards the Shape Engineering of Microscale Soft Pneumatic Actuators IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2016, 1-6<\/li>\n<li>X. Liang; C. Lee &amp; H. Ren Towards a Micro Pneumatic Actuator with Large Bending Deformation for Medical Interventions 7th WACBE World Congress on Bioengineering, 6th to 8th July, 2015, Singapore, Springer International Publishing, 2015, 52, 76-79<\/li>\n<li>P. M. Khin; J. H. Low; S. Kukreja; H. Ren &amp; R. Yeow Soft Haptics Using Soft Actuator and Soft Sensor BioRob2016, 6th IEEE RAS\/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, June 26-29, 2016, Singapore, 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract The micro actuator has been studied for its application in micro operations such as manipulating cellular aggregate, the tissues or drug delivery. The traditional actuation methods include thermo-mechanical actuation, electromagnetic actuation, electrostatic actuation and pneumatic actuation. Among these actuation methods, pneumatic actuation has the advantage of not generating heat\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/projects\/lxqmicrosoro\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,35],"tags":[55,58,63,89,92,99],"class_list":["post-2398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-soft-continuum-robots-in-medicine","tag-co-robot","tag-continuum","tag-flexible-robots","tag-shape-morphing","tag-soft-robotics","tag-tier2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.labren.org\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}