TY - GEN
T1 - A robot hand using electro-conjugate fluid
AU - Yamaguchi, Akihiro
AU - Takemura, Kenjiro
AU - Yokota, Shinichi
AU - Edamura, Kazuya
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - An electro-conjugate fluid (ECF) is a kind of functional fluid, which produces a jet flow (ECF jet) when subjected to high DC voltage. It is known that a strong ECF jet is generated under nonuniform electric field, for example, the field with a pair of needle and ring electrodes. This study introduces the ECF jet to develop a novel flexible robot hand. First, we characterize the ECF jet generator which could be a micro fluid pressure source of the robot hand, and confirm the effect of the variation of electrode parameters and the number of electrode pairs on its performance. Next, we investigate the characteristics of the robot finger which mainly consists of the ECF jet generator, a flexible rubber finger and an ECF tank. The robot finger is integrated with the pressure source (ECF jet generator) and the tank, and is successfully driven. Finally we developed a five-fingered flexible robot hand and demonstrate that the robot hand can grasp some objects with various shapes without any complex controller. The height, the width and the mass of the robot hand are approximately 60 mm, 40 mm and 15 g, respectively.
AB - An electro-conjugate fluid (ECF) is a kind of functional fluid, which produces a jet flow (ECF jet) when subjected to high DC voltage. It is known that a strong ECF jet is generated under nonuniform electric field, for example, the field with a pair of needle and ring electrodes. This study introduces the ECF jet to develop a novel flexible robot hand. First, we characterize the ECF jet generator which could be a micro fluid pressure source of the robot hand, and confirm the effect of the variation of electrode parameters and the number of electrode pairs on its performance. Next, we investigate the characteristics of the robot finger which mainly consists of the ECF jet generator, a flexible rubber finger and an ECF tank. The robot finger is integrated with the pressure source (ECF jet generator) and the tank, and is successfully driven. Finally we developed a five-fingered flexible robot hand and demonstrate that the robot hand can grasp some objects with various shapes without any complex controller. The height, the width and the mass of the robot hand are approximately 60 mm, 40 mm and 15 g, respectively.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5979691
DO - 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5979691
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84860743657
SN - 9781612843865
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
SP - 5923
EP - 5928
BT - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2011
T2 - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2011
Y2 - 9 May 2011 through 13 May 2011
ER -