Robotic Systems and Autonomous Platforms. Advances in Materials and Manufacturing. Woodhead Publishing in Materials

Table of Contents

Section A Actuation 1. Manipulation, assembling, and actuation of nanomotors by electric tweezers Donglei (Emma) Fan 2. Artificial muscle logic devices for autonomous local control E.-F. Markus Henke, Katherine E. Wilson, Geoffrey A. Slipher, Randy A. Mrozek, Iain A. Anderson 3. Hygromorphic living materials for shape changing Lining Yao

Section B Mobility 4. Fluid-driven intrinsically soft robots Robert Shepherd, Kirstin Petersen 5. Designing Proteus: Engineering form and function for microrobotics Remmi Baker, Allan M. Brooks, Ayusman Sen 6. Physics approaches to natural locomotion: Every robot is an experiment Yasemin Ozkan Aydin, Jennifer M. Rieser, Christian M. Hubicki, William Savoie, Daniel I. Goldman 7. Robotic colloids: Engineered self-propulsion at the microscale (and smaller) Jeffrey L. Moran

Section C Control Theory and Algorithms Logic and Proxy Electronic Functions Algorithmic Materials 8. Soft timer: Dynamic clock embedded in soft body Kohei Nakajima, Tao Li, Nozomi Akashi 9. Algorithmic materials: Embedding computation within material properties for autonomy Ana Pervan, Todd Murphey 10. Achieving self-sustained motion of particles in solution with chemical pumps Oleg E. Shklyaev, Henry Shum, Anna C. Balazs 11. Topology optimization for robotics applications Raymond Wildman, Andrew Gaynor

Section D Integration 12. Robotic materials for robot autonomy Nikolaus Correl 13. 3D printed electronic materials and devices Ruitao Su, Sung Hyun Park, Zhaohan Li, Michael C. McAlpine 14. Additive manufacturing of soft robots S. Walker, O.D. Yirmibesoglu, U. Daalkhaijav, Y. Menguc 15. Synthetic cells, or colloidal state machines, with two-dimensional materials Jingfan Yang, Volodymyr B. Koman, Pingwei Liu, Tianxian Liu, Michael S. Strano

Section E Energy 16. Energy harvesting techniques mediated by molecular interactions with nanostructured carbon materials Albert Tianxiang Liu, Ge Zhang, Michael S. Strano 17. Mechanics of fluid-elastomer systems in soft robotics Carmel Majidi 18. Structural power, energy, actuation, and mobility in intelligently directed systems enabled from nanocrystalline metals Anit K. Giri, Kristopher A. Darling, Shawn M. Walsh

Section F Novel Robotics as Material Platforms 19.  Materials design for robotic platforms enabling unique mechanisms of projectile protection Pingwei Liu, Michael S. Strano 20. The confluence of intelligent agents and materials to enable protection of humans in extreme and dangerous environments Shawn M. Walsh, Daniel M. Baechle 21 Super materials and robots making robots: Challenges and opportunities in robotic building at the microstructural level Ron Pelrine

Authors

Shawn M. Walsh U.S. Army Research Laboratory, USA. Dr. Shawn M. Walsh is currently the Research, Development, and Engineering Command (RDECOM) Fellow serving on the Army Future Studies Group. As an active researcher at the Army Research Laboratory, he has been widely recognized for his early and continued work in intelligent materials and processes, and the development of new application space by reaching across academic, industrial, and military sectors. He is an alumni of the National Academy of Engineering's Frontiers in Engineering, and the recipient of several awards including the U.S. Defense Manufacturing Technology Achievement Award for breakthrough performance of next generation head protection Michael S. Strano Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. Professor Michael S. Strano is currently the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on micro- and nano-meter scale robotics, biomolecule/nanoparticle interactions and the surface chemistry of low dimensional systems, nano-electronics, nanoparticle separations, and applications of vibrational spectroscopy to nanotechnology. Michael is the recipient of numerous awards for his work from 2005 to the present, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017