In:
Advanced Materials, Wiley
Abstract:
Tensegrity structure is composed of tensile cables and compressive rods, offering high stiffness‐to‐mass ratio, deploy ability and excellent energy damping capability. The active and dynamic tensegrity designs demonstrate great potential for soft robots. In previous designs, the movement relied on carefully controlled input power or manually controlled light irradiation, limiting their potential applications. In this work, a hybrid tensegrity structure (HTS) is constructed by integrating thermally responsive cables, non‐responsive cables and stiff rods. The HTS can self‐propel continuously on a hot surface due to its unique geometry. The HTS allows for the easy achievement of multimodal self‐propelled locomotive modes, which has been challenging for previously demonstrated self‐propelling structures. Additionally, using Velcro tapes to adhere the rods and cables together, a modulable and re‐assemblable HTS is created. The HTS introduced in this study presents a new strategy and offers a large design space for constructing self‐propelling and modulable robots. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0935-9648
,
1521-4095
DOI:
10.1002/adma.202314093
Language:
English
Publisher:
Wiley
Publication Date:
2024
detail.hit.zdb_id:
1474949-X
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