Abstract
Recently, there has been strong interest in printed robots and paper electronics. Printing is an adequate manufacturing method for the mass production; robots manufactured by printing can be low cost, rapidly creatable and easy to design. Paper is one of smart materials with high water absorbency and strength; it is easily mass-produced at low cost. Many inexpensive and flexible devices were created in paper electronics. Therefore, we propose paper mechatronics that merges printed robots and paper electronics. We used a commercial ink jet printer with water-based ink for self-folding of paper; the paper was folded automatically along the printed line to make the robot body. The paper robot was equipped with a printed electrothermal actuator that consists of epoxy resin covered by conductive ink. The epoxy resin was heated by Joule heat of the conductive ink under a driving voltage of 8 V. The self-folding of experimental paper robot took 15 minutes to construct the body and the robot demonstrated a locomotion at 6.5 mm per step.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
| Pages | 536-541 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781479969340 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2014 Oct 31 |
| Event | 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2014 - Chicago Duration: 2014 Sept 14 → 2014 Sept 18 |
Other
| Other | 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2014 |
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| City | Chicago |
| Period | 14/9/14 → 14/9/18 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Software
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Computer Science Applications