TY - GEN
T1 - Nemertea Proboscis Inspired Extendable Mechanism
AU - Tadakuma, Kenjiro
AU - Takayashi, Tomoya
AU - Hookabe, Natsumi
AU - Watanabe, Masahiro
AU - Ozawa, Yu
AU - Shimizu, Tori
AU - Takane, Eri
AU - Kajihara, Hiroshi
AU - Yamazaki, Takeshi
AU - Konyo, Masashi
AU - Tadokoro, Satoshi
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Science of Soft Robot” project under Grant Number JP18H05471
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - In this research, we aim to establish a design theory and implementation method for an inflatable robot mechanism that can branch and divide freely based on the core technology that a robot freely shapes its structure with a shape memory function. As a first step of our investigation, we present an initial prototype model of branched torus mechanism using inflatable structure inspired by the nemertea proboscis We developed the basic prototype mechanical model of this proboscis structure and did some experiments to understand the basic performance of this configuration. As explained above, we confirmed the basic performances of the first prototype mechanical models based on nemertea proboscis and this mechanical configuration can be used for the expandable gripper, the branched stent graft, the distributer of the tiny mobile robots into the real fields.
AB - In this research, we aim to establish a design theory and implementation method for an inflatable robot mechanism that can branch and divide freely based on the core technology that a robot freely shapes its structure with a shape memory function. As a first step of our investigation, we present an initial prototype model of branched torus mechanism using inflatable structure inspired by the nemertea proboscis We developed the basic prototype mechanical model of this proboscis structure and did some experiments to understand the basic performance of this configuration. As explained above, we confirmed the basic performances of the first prototype mechanical models based on nemertea proboscis and this mechanical configuration can be used for the expandable gripper, the branched stent graft, the distributer of the tiny mobile robots into the real fields.
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U2 - 10.1109/MHS48134.2019.9249086
DO - 10.1109/MHS48134.2019.9249086
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85095326603
T3 - MHS 2019 - 30th 2019 International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science
BT - MHS 2019 - 30th 2019 International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 30th International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science, MHS 2019
Y2 - 1 December 2019 through 4 December 2019
ER -