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Terryn, Seppe
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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- 2024Designing flexible and self-healing electronics using hybrid carbon black/nanoclay composites based on Diels-Alder dynamic covalent networkscitations
- 2024SMA Wire Use in Hybrid Twisting and Bending/Extending Soft Fiber-Reinforced Actuatorscitations
- 2024Diels-Alder Network Blends as Self-Healing Encapsulants for Liquid Metal-Based Stretchable Electronicscitations
- 2023Fast Self-Healing at Room Temperature in Diels–Alder Elastomerscitations
- 2023Assisted damage closure and healing in soft robots by shape memory alloy wirescitations
- 2023Vitrimeric shape memory polymer-based fingertips for adaptive graspingcitations
- 2023Effect of Secondary Particles on Self-Healing and Electromechanical Properties of Polymer Composites Based on Carbon Black and a Diels–Alder Networkcitations
- 2022Learning-Based Damage Recovery for Healable Soft Electronic Skinscitations
- 2021The Influence of the Furan and Maleimide Stoichiometry on the Thermoreversible Diels–Alder Network Polymerizationcitations
- 2020Self-Healing Material Design and Optimization for Soft Robotic Applications
- 2019Investigation of self-healing actuators for robotics
- 2017Towards the first developments of self-healing soft robotics
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SMA Wire Use in Hybrid Twisting and Bending/Extending Soft Fiber-Reinforced Actuators
Abstract
Soft fiber-reinforced actuators have demonstrated significant potential across various robotics applications. However, the actuation motion in these actuators is typically limited to a single type of motion behavior, such as bending, extending, and twisting. Additionally, a combination of bending with twisting and extending with twisting can occur in fiber-reinforced actuators. This paper presents two novel hybrid actuators in which shape memory alloy (SMA) wires are used as reinforcement for pneumatic actuation, and upon electrical activation, they create a twisting motion. As a result, the hybrid soft SMA-reinforced actuators can select between twisting and bending, as well as twisting and extending. In pneumatic mode, a bending angle of 40° and a longitudinal strain of 20% were achieved for the bending/twisting and extending/twisting actuators, respectively. When the SMA wires are electrically activated by the Joule effect, the actuators achieved more than 90% of the maximum twisting angle (24°) in almost 2 s. Passive recovery, facilitated by the elastic response of the soft chamber, took approximately 10 s. The double-helical reinforcement by SMA wires not only enables twisting in both directions but also serves as an active recovery mechanism to more rapidly return the finger to the initial position (within 2 s). The resulting pneumatic–electric-driven soft actuators enhance dexterity and versatility, making them suitable for applications in walking robots, in-pipe crawling robots, and in-hand manipulation.