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Digital light processing of liquid crystal elastomers for self-sensing artificial muscles

Shuo Li, Hedan Bai, Zheng Liu, Xinyue Zhang, Chuqi Huang, Lennard W. Wiesner, Meredith N. Silberstein, Robert F. Shepherd

Year
2021
Citations
256
Access
Open access

Abstract

). We demonstrate actuators composed of these DLP printed LCEs' applications in soft robotics, such as reversible grasping, untethered crawling, and weightlifting. Furthermore, we present an LCE self-sensing system that exploits thermally induced optical transition as an intrinsic option toward feedback control.

Keywords

ElastomerLiquid crystalArtificial muscleMaterials scienceArtificial lightDigital Light ProcessingComputer scienceNanotechnologyOptoelectronicsArtificial intelligence

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