Soft Actuators: Materials, Modeling, Applications, and Future Perspectives

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This book is the second edition of Soft Actuators, originally published in 2014, with 12 chapters added to the first edition. The subject of this new edition is current comprehensive research and development of soft actuators, covering interdisciplinary study of materials science, mechanics, electronics, robotics, and bioscience. The book includes contemporary research of actuators based on biomaterials for their potential in future artificial muscle technology. Readers will find detailed and useful information about materials, methods of synthesis, fabrication, and measurements to study soft actuators. Additionally, the topics of materials, modeling, and applications not only promote the further research and development of soft actuators, but bring benefits for utilization and industrialization. This volume makes generous use of color figures, diagrams, and photographs that provide easy-to-understand descriptions of the mechanisms, apparatus, and motions of soft actuators. Also, in this second edition the chapters on modeling, materials design, and device design have been given a wider scope and made easier to comprehend, which will be helpful in practical applications of soft actuators. Readers of this work can acquire the newest technology and information about basic science and practical applications of flexible, lightweight, and noiseless soft actuators, which differ from conventional mechanical engines and electric motors. This new edition of Soft Actuators will inspire readers with fresh ideas and encourage their research and development, thus opening up a new field of applications for the utilization and industrialization of soft actuators. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Progress and Current Status of Materials and Properties of Soft Actuators (Hidenori Okuzaki)....Pages 3-18 Current Status of Applications and Markets of Soft Actuators (Kinji Asaka, Kayo Nakamura)....Pages 19-35 Front Matter ....Pages 37-37 Electromagnetic Heating (Takeshi Yamauchi)....Pages 39-47 Thermo-Responsive Nanofiber Mats Fabricated by Electrospinning (Hidenori Okuzaki)....Pages 49-60 Evolution of Self-Oscillating Polymer Gels as Autonomous Soft Actuators (Ryo Yoshida)....Pages 61-80 Polyrotaxane Actuators (Abu Bin Imran, Mohammad Harun-Ur-Rashid, Yukikazu Takeoka)....Pages 81-147 Front Matter ....Pages 149-149 Ionic Conductive Polymers (Kunitomo Kikuchi, Shigeki Tsuchitani)....Pages 151-169 Conducting Polymers (Keiichi Kaneto)....Pages 171-185 Humidity-Sensitive Conducting Polymer Actuators (Hidenori Okuzaki)....Pages 187-202 Carbon Nanotube/Ionic Liquid Composites (Takushi Sugino, Kenji Kiyohara, Kinji Asaka)....Pages 203-215 Ion Gels for Ionic Polymer Actuators (Masayoshi Watanabe, Satoru Imaizumi, Tomohiro Yasuda, Hisashi Kokubo)....Pages 217-232 Ionic Liquid/Polyurethane/PEDOT:PSS Composite Actuators (Hidenori Okuzaki)....Pages 233-243 Dielectric Gels (Toshihiro Hirai)....Pages 245-258 Dielectric Elastomers (Seiki Chiba)....Pages 259-273 Piezoelectric Polymers (Yoshiro Tajitsu)....Pages 275-287 Thermal and Electrical Actuation of Liquid Crystal Elastomers/Gels (Kenji Urayama)....Pages 289-306 Front Matter ....Pages 307-307 Spiropyran-Functionalized Hydrogels (Kimio Sumaru, Toshiyuki Takagi, Shinji Sugiura, Toshiyuki Kanamori)....Pages 309-320 Photomechanical Energy Conversion with Cross-Linked Liquid-Crystalline Polymers (Jun-ichi Mamiya)....Pages 321-333 Photoredox Reaction (Tetsu Tatsuma)....Pages 335-343 Front Matter ....Pages 345-345 Magnetic Fluid Composite Gels (Toshihiro Hirai)....Pages 347-362 Magnetic Particle Composite Gels (Tetsu Mitsumata)....Pages 363-376 Front Matter ....Pages 377-377 Molecular Mechanism of Electrically Induced Volume Change of Porous Electrodes (Kenji Kiyohara, Takushi Sugino, Kinji Asaka)....Pages 379-388 Computational Modeling of Mechanical Sensors Using Ionic Electroactive Polymers (Yutaka Toi, Seongwon Yoo)....Pages 389-401 Distributed Parameter System Modeling (Kentaro Takagi, Gou Nishida, Bernhard Maschke, Kinji Asaka)....Pages 403-415 Control of Electro-active Polymer Actuators with Considering Characteristics Changes (Norihiro Kamamichi)....Pages 417-427 Motion Design-A Gel Robot Approach (Mihoko Otake)....Pages 429-440 Motion Control (Minoru Hashimoto)....Pages 441-454 IPMC Actuation Mechanisms and Multi-physical Modeling (Zicai Zhu, Hualing Chen, Longfei Chang)....Pages 455-502 Sensing Properties and Physical Model of Ionic Polymer (Zicai Zhu, Hualing Chen, Yanjie Wang)....Pages 503-545 Modeling of Dielectric Elastomer Actuator (Bo Li, Hualing Chen, Guimin Chen)....Pages 547-560 Modeling of Dielectric Gel Using Multi-physics Coupling Theory (Bo Li, Longfei Chang, Yanjie Wang)....Pages 561-580 Modeling and Control of Fishing-Line/Sewing-Thread Artificial Muscles (Twisted and Coiled Polymer Fibers, TCPFs) (Kentaro Takagi, Norihiro Kamamichi, Ken Masuya, Kenji Tahara, Toshihira Irisawa, Kinji Asaka)....Pages 581-596 Front Matter ....Pages 597-597 Underwater Soft Robots (Kentaro Takagi, Zhi-Wei Luo, Kinji Asaka)....Pages 599-613 IPMC Actuator-Based Multifunctional Underwater Microrobots (Shuxiang Guo, Liwei Shi)....Pages 615-635 Medical Applications (Tadashi Ihara, Taro Nakamura)....Pages 637-643 Elastomer Transducers (Mikio Waki, Seiki Chiba)....Pages 645-660 Dielectric Elastomer Sensors: Development of a Stretchable Strain Sensor System (Hideo Otaka)....Pages 661-675 Front Matter ....Pages 677-677 Tissue-Engineering Approach to Making Soft Actuators (Toshia Fujisato, Shunya Takagi, Tomohiro Nakamura, Hiroshi Tsutsui)....Pages 679-690 Integration of Soft Actuators Based on a Biomolecular Motor System to Develop Artificial Machines (Jakia Jannat Keya, Kentaro Kayano, Arif Md. Rashedul Kabir, Akira Kakugo)....Pages 691-709 Employing Cytoskeletal Treadmilling in Bio-actuators (Ryuzo Kawamura, Ken-Ichi Sano, Yoshihito Osada)....Pages 711-722 Construction and Functional Emergence of Bioactuated Micronanosystem and Living Machined Wet Robotics (Yoshiyuki Takashima, Kaoru Uesugi, Keisuke Morishima)....Pages 723-740