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MICROROBOTIC TENTACLES WITH SPIRAL BENDING CAPABILITY BASED ON SHAPE-ENGINEERED ELASTOMERIC MICROTUBES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING SAME
MICROROBOTIC TENTACLES WITH SPIRAL BENDING CAPABILITY BASED ON SHAPE-ENGINEERED ELASTOMERIC MICROTUBES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING SAME
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机译:基于形状工程化的弹性微管的具有螺旋弯曲能力的微微触角及其制造方法
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Elastomer-based soft-robotic micro-tentacles capable of winding around and holding microscale objects and methods of fabricating same are provided. To realize the thin, highly deformable microtubes, a fabrication technique based on in situ thermal solidification of PDMS dip-coated around a cylindrical template and direct peeling of the cured structure is presented. This process is capable to asymmetrize the microtube's cross-sectional shape and enable the microtube to bend up to a single turn. To amplify the bending into a life-like, multi-turn spiraling motion, a semi-analytical model to shape-engineer the microtube and turn it into a micro-tentacle was produced. As a result, a hump is added to the microtube to enable the multi-turn spiraling motion.
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