This class focuses on soft robotics and its related areas. Soft robotics has been an active research area in the past decades. Soft robotics is related to various fields such as mechanics, electronics, information science, material science, and biology. Researchers in soft robotics and its related areas will provide lectures from their standpoints.
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| 9/27 | Koichi Suzumori |
Soft Robotics : Principles and Perspectives |
| adaptation, underactuation, e-kagen, biomimetics, functional materials |
| 10/4 | Ryuma Niiyama |
Bodies of Soft Robots |
| soft mechanism, bio-inspired robot, continuum body, soft-bodied robot, evolutionary design, motor learning |
| 10/11 | Shinichi Hirai |
Mechanics of Soft Bodies |
| motion and deformation, strain potential and kinetic energies, dynamic equations of deformation |
| 10/18 | Hidemitsu Furukawa |
3D Printing of Soft Robots |
| 3D printer, 4D printing, soft matter, gels |
| 10/25 | Shinichi Hirai |
Mechanics of Soft Bodies |
| finite element approximation, inertia and stiffness matrices, dynamic simulation of soft body deformation |
| 11/1 | Kohei Nakajima |
Information Processing in Soft Robots |
| embodiment, nonlinear dynamics, chaos, physical reservoir computing |
| 11/8 | Kohei Nakajima |
Information Processing in Soft Robots |
| embodiment, nonlinear dynamics, chaos, physical reservoir computing |
| 11/15 | Jun Shintake |
Soft Actuators |
| soft fluidic actuators, electroactive polymers, stimuli responsive materials, shape memory materials |
| 11/22 | Jun Shintake |
Soft Actuators |
| soft fluidic actuators, electroactive polymers, stimuli responsive materials, shape memory materials |
| 11/29 | Kazuhiro Shimonomura |
Soft Sensors |
| resistive sensor, capacitive sensor, piezoelectric sensor, magnetic sensor |
| 12/6 | Kazuhiro Shimonomura |
Soft Sensors |
| optical sensor, vision-based tactile sensor, implementation in soft robots |
| 12/13 | Shima Okada |
Soft Wearable Devices and Their Applications |
| Biomedical applications of software-able sensors.
e.g. bending sensors, electrodes for nerve potentials, elongation sensors |
| 12/20 | Zhongkui Wang |
Soft End-Effectors and Their Applications |
| soft gripper, modeling and simulation, design and fabrication, finite element, topological optimization |
| 1/10 | Zhongkui Wang |
Soft End-Effectors and Their Applications |
| food industrial application, agricultural application, medical related application |
| 1/17 | Shinichi Hirai |
Wrap-up and Future Directions |
| evolution, degeneration, design, emergence |
