抄録
Electrohydrodynamics (EHD) refers to the direct conversion of electrical energy into mechanical energy of a fluid. Through the use of mobile electrodes, this principle is exploited in a novel fashion for designing and testing a millimeter-scale untethered robot, which is powered harvesting the energy from an external electric field. The robot is designed as an inverted sail-boat, with the thrust generated on the sail submerged in the liquid. The diffusion constant of the robot is experimentally computed, proving that its movement is not driven by thermal fluctuations, and then its kinematic and dynamic responses are characterized for different applied voltages. The results show the feasibility of using EHD with mobile electrodes for powering untethered robots and provide new evidences for the further development of this actuation system for both mobile robots and compliant actuators in soft robotics.
| 本文言語 | English |
|---|---|
| 論文番号 | 1600495 |
| ジャーナル | Advanced Science |
| 巻 | 4 |
| 号 | 9 |
| DOI | |
| 出版ステータス | Published - 2017 9月 1 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- 工学（全般）
- 材料科学（全般）
- 物理学および天文学（全般）
- 化学工学（全般）
- 医学（その他）
- 生化学、遺伝学、分子生物学（その他）