Textiles in soft robots: Current progress and future trends

Fu, Chiyu; Xia, Zhigang; Hurren, Christopher; Nilghaz, Azadeh; Wang, Xungai

doi:10.1016/j.bios.2021.113690

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“…This approach, which was derived from the textile industry, can provide a fast response speed, large-angle torsion, and high energy density to enhance the performance of actuators. 76,77 Based on the research for animal WR materials, researchers have created a number of high-performance actuators. For example, Liu et al found that spider silk exhibited a torsional deformation of 3001 mm À1 under humidity, and the torsional actuation of spider silk can be precisely controlled by adjusting the relative humidity, which can inspire novel designs of torsional actuators or artificial muscles.…”

Section: Biological Material-based Actuatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Development and challenges of smart actuators based on water-responsive materials

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“…This approach, which was derived from the textile industry, can provide a fast response speed, large-angle torsion, and high energy density to enhance the performance of actuators. 76,77…”

Section: Wr Material-based Actuatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development and challenges of smart actuators based on water-responsive materials

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Wang

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Soft Matter

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“…Alongside reports on individual projects and pieces discussing the same project from alternative angles, our survey identifed nine literature reviews focusing on topics adjacent to woven eTextiles. While none of the reviews provide the depth of detail on the textile structures that some other sources do, each of these articles features some examples of woven eTextiles [1,17,29,35,58,101,102,112,126]. We include them here because they go into the links to woven-eTextile-related topics and present overviews of these, but they are excluded from our detail-level analysis since they lack the required depth.…”

Section: Woven Etextiles In Hcimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Bus structures and interconnections for eTextiles have been reviewed also [1], as has the fabrication of eTextile devices and their power supplies [58]. The fnal two reviews attend more to the application level, with one focusing on the technologies enabling information-gathering garments [112] and the other considering robotics applications [29].…”

Section: Woven Etextiles In Hcimentioning

confidence: 99%

Woven eTextiles in HCI — a Literature Review

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Mikkonen

2022

Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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Advances to functional materials and fexible electronics have yielded new means of integrating electrical properties into textile materials, which invite researchers in various felds to apply woven-textile construction methods in eTextile development. However, common ground for woven eTextiles' prototyping is still taking shape. This calls for greater understanding of how the knowledge now scattered across diverse research felds can beneft the textiles' development for HCI. To investigate how eTextile research has employed weaving and extract insight for HCI purposes, the authors reviewed and categorised applications of woven structures and electrical functions, then identifed specifcally HCI-relevant qualities and means of creating them via weaving. The paper outlines those woven structures useful for HCI and advocates consistent weaving-related terminology, to improve knowledge transfer across disciplines. In addition, the results point to research opportunities involving haptic qualities, the ability to weave multiple layers, functionality integration, and tools and methods. CCS CONCEPTS• General and reference → Surveys and overviews; • Hardware → Flexible and printable circuits.

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“…The growing demand for soft electronics promotes the development of smart textiles. Of particular interest are stretchable, skin-mountable and wearable strain sensors that find application in various sectors, such as personalized health-monitoring [1][2][3][4], human motion detection [5][6][7][8], and human-machine interfaces or soft robotics [9][10][11][12]. Thereby, smart textiles offer the advantages of intuitive interaction with the human body and long-term monitoring capabilities [13].…”

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Textile Strain Sensor Enhancement by Coating Metal Yarns with Carbon-Filled Silicone

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Flexible and stretchable strain sensors are an important development for measuring various movements and forces and are increasingly used in a wide range of smart textiles. For example, strain sensors can be used to measure the movements of arms, legs or individual joints. Thereby, most strain sensors are capable of detecting large movements with a high sensitivity. Very few are able to measure small movements, i.e., strains of less than 5%, with a high sensitivity, which is necessary to carry out important health measurements, such as breathing, bending, heartbeat, and vibrations. This research deals with the development of strain sensors capable of detecting strain of 1% with a high sensitivity. For this purpose, a total of six commercially available metallic yarns were coated with a carbon-containing silicone coating. The process is based on a vertical dip-coating technology with a self-printed 3D coating bath. Afterwards, the finished yarns were interlooped and stretched by 1% while electrical resistance measurements were carried out. It was shown that, although the coating reduced the overall conductivity of the yarns, it also improved their sensitivity to stress. Conclusively, highly sensitive strain sensors, designed specially for small loads, were produced by a simple coating set-up and interlooping structure of the sensory yarns, which could easily be embedded in greater textile structures for wearable electronics.

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Textiles in soft robots: Current progress and future trends

Cited by 63 publications

References 277 publications

Development and challenges of smart actuators based on water-responsive materials

Development and challenges of smart actuators based on water-responsive materials

Woven eTextiles in HCI — a Literature Review

Textile Strain Sensor Enhancement by Coating Metal Yarns with Carbon-Filled Silicone

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