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A remotely driven and controlled micro-gripper fabricated from light-induced deformation smart material

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Huang, C; Lv, JA; Tian, X; Wang, Y; Liu, J; Yu, Y
Published in: Smart Materials and Structures
August 8, 2016

Micro-gripper is an important tool to manipulate and assemble micro-scale objects. Generally, as micro-gripper is too small to be directly driven by general motors, it always needs special driving devices and suitable structure design. In this paper, two-finger micro-grippers are designed and fabricated, which utilize light-induced deformation smart material to make one of the two fingers. As the smart material is directly driven and controlled by remote lights instead of lines and motors, this light-driven mode simplifies the design of the two-finger micro-gripper and avoids special drivers and complex mechanical structure. In addition, a micro-manipulation experiment system is set up which is based on the light-driven micro-gripper. Experimental results show that this remotely light-driven micro-gripper has ability to manipulate and assemble micro-scale objects both in air and water. Furthermore, two micro-grippers can also work together for cooperation which can further enhance the assembly ability. On the other hand, this kind of remotely controllable micro-gripper that does not require on-board energy storage, can be used in mobile micro-robot as a manipulation hand.

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Published In

Smart Materials and Structures

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EISSN

1361-665X

ISSN

0964-1726

Publication Date

August 8, 2016

Volume

25

Issue

9

Related Subject Headings

  • Materials
  • 40 Engineering
  • 34 Chemical sciences
  • 09 Engineering
  • 03 Chemical Sciences
 

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Huang, C., Lv, J. A., Tian, X., Wang, Y., Liu, J., & Yu, Y. (2016). A remotely driven and controlled micro-gripper fabricated from light-induced deformation smart material. Smart Materials and Structures, 25(9). https://doi.org/10.1088/0964-1726/25/9/095009
Huang, C., J. A. Lv, X. Tian, Y. Wang, J. Liu, and Y. Yu. “A remotely driven and controlled micro-gripper fabricated from light-induced deformation smart material.” Smart Materials and Structures 25, no. 9 (August 8, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1088/0964-1726/25/9/095009.
Huang C, Lv JA, Tian X, Wang Y, Liu J, Yu Y. A remotely driven and controlled micro-gripper fabricated from light-induced deformation smart material. Smart Materials and Structures. 2016 Aug 8;25(9).
Huang, C., et al. “A remotely driven and controlled micro-gripper fabricated from light-induced deformation smart material.” Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 25, no. 9, Aug. 2016. Scopus, doi:10.1088/0964-1726/25/9/095009.
Huang C, Lv JA, Tian X, Wang Y, Liu J, Yu Y. A remotely driven and controlled micro-gripper fabricated from light-induced deformation smart material. Smart Materials and Structures. 2016 Aug 8;25(9).
Journal cover image

Published In

Smart Materials and Structures

DOI

EISSN

1361-665X

ISSN

0964-1726

Publication Date

August 8, 2016

Volume

25

Issue

9

Related Subject Headings

  • Materials
  • 40 Engineering
  • 34 Chemical sciences
  • 09 Engineering
  • 03 Chemical Sciences