Explores soft electrically-driven actuators for robotics and haptics, focusing on electrostatic actuation principles and the development of soft actuators using various materials.
Explores the design and components of an antenna deployment mechanism, covering critical requirements, main functions, actuator types, and power budget considerations.
Explores transduction through actuation mechanisms, covering force-based and deformation-based methods, shape memory polymers, electrostatic and magnetic actuation principles, and examples like Texas Instruments DLP & DMD.
Explores scaling laws, simulations, and challenges in electrostatic MEMS, focusing on energy density, capacitance, actuators, and practical applications in haptic gloves.
Delves into the theory of material activation, proposing a unified mathematical framework to model how multiple stimuli can produce changes at the macroscopic level.
Explores autonomously moving and assembling soft matter systems, focusing on hydrogel actuators, latch-mediated spring actuation, and self-spinning filament bundles.
Explores scaling laws and applications of electrostatics in MEMS, covering topics like parallel plate capacitors, zipping actuators, and MEMS gyroscopes.
