Bacchetti, A, Lloyd, P, Taccola, S et al. (5 more authors) (2022) Optimization and fabrication of programmable domains for soft magnetic robots: A review. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 9. 1040984. ISSN 2296-9144
Abstract
Driven by the aim of realizing functional robotic systems at the milli- and submillimetre scale for biomedical applications, the area of magnetically driven soft devices has received significant recent attention. This has resulted in a new generation of magnetically controlled soft robots with patterns of embedded, programmable domains throughout their structures. This type of programmable magnetic profiling equips magnetic soft robots with shape programmable memory and can be achieved through the distribution of discrete domains (voxels) with variable magnetic densities and magnetization directions. This approach has produced highly compliant, and often bio-inspired structures that are well suited to biomedical applications at small scales, including microfluidic transport and shape-forming surgical catheters. However, to unlock the full potential of magnetic soft robots with improved designs and control, significant challenges remain in their compositional optimization and fabrication. This review considers recent advances and challenges in the interlinked optimization and fabrication aspects of programmable domains within magnetic soft robots. Through a combination of improvements in the computational capacity of novel optimization methods with advances in the resolution, material selection and automation of existing and novel fabrication methods, significant further developments in programmable magnetic soft robots may be realized.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 Bacchetti, Lloyd, Taccola, Fakhoury, Cochran, Harris, Valdastri and Chandler. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). |
Keywords: | soft robots material and design, magnetic materials, magnetic soft robots, design optimization, advanced fabrication, bio-inspired (BI), programmable magnetic profiling |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering (Leeds) > Robotics, Autonomous Systems & Sensing (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) EP/R045291/1 EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) EP/V009818/1 EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) EP/P027687/1 EU - European Union 818045 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 08 Dec 2022 14:05 |
Last Modified: | 08 Dec 2022 14:05 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Frontiers Media |
Identification Number: | 10.3389/frobt.2022.1040984 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:193738 |