OmniSkins: Robotic skins that turn inanimate objects into multifunctional robots
OmniSkins: Robotic skins that turn inanimate objects into multifunctional robots
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DOI：
10.1126/scirobotics.aat1853
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发表时间：
2018-09-19
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25
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Kramer-Bottiglio, Rebecca
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作者：
Booth, Joran W.;Shah, Dylan;Kramer-Bottiglio, Rebecca
机器人通常在结构化环境中擅长特定的任务，但缺乏与自然界互动和在自然界中移动所需的多功能性和适应性。为了增加机器人设计的通用性，我们提出了可以包裹任意软体的机器人皮肤，以诱导所需的运动和变形。机器人皮肤将驱动和传感集成到单一的可整合材料中，并可用于创建大量具有不同功能或步态的可控软机器人，以适应不同环境的需求。我们表明，以不同的方式将相同的机器人皮肤附着到软体上，或者附着到不同的软体上，会导致不同的运动。此外，我们还展示了组合多个机器人皮肤可以实现复杂的运动和功能。我们使用在各种3D柔软、无生命物体表面重新配置的相同的二维(2D)机器人皮肤，展示了这种软机器人设计方法在广泛的应用中的多功能性--包括操纵任务、移动和可穿戴设备。
Robots generally excel at specific tasks in structured environments but lack the versatility and the adaptability required to interact with and locomote within the natural world. To increase versatility in robot design, we present robotic skins that can wrap around arbitrary soft bodies to induce the desired motions and deformations. Robotic skins integrate actuation and sensing into a single conformable material and may be leveraged to create a multitude of controllable soft robots with different functions or gaits to accommodate the demands of different environments. We show that attaching the same robotic skin to a soft body in different ways, or to different soft bodies, leads to distinct motions. Further, we show that combining multiple robotic skins enables complex motions and functions. We demonstrate the versatility of this soft robot design approach in a wide range of applications-including manipulation tasks, locomotion, and wearables-using the same two-dimensional (2D) robotic skins reconfigured on the surface of various 3D soft, inanimate objects.