Jun Shintake

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Electroadhesive device, system and method for gripping

Dario Floreano, Samuel Rosset, Herbert Shea, Jun Shintake, Bryan Edward Schubert

A device for electroadhesion and conversion of electrical energy into mechanical energy, for example electrostatic actuation, is provided, including a soft polymeric dielectric support having at least two sets of overlapping electrodes patterned respective ...

2017

Soft Pneumatic Gelatin Actuator for Edible Robotics

Dario Floreano, Jun Shintake, Jamie Paik, Harshal Arun Sonar, Yegor Piskarev

We present a fully edible pneumatic actuator based on gelatin-glycerol material. The actuator is monolithic, fabricated via a molding process, and measures 90 mm in length, 20 mm in width, and 17 mm in thickness. Thanks to the material mechanical character ...

2017

Bio-inspired Tensegrity Soft Modular Robots

Dario Floreano, Jun Shintake, Stefano Mintchev, Davide Zappetti

In this paper, we introduce a design principle to develop novel soft modular robots based on tensegrity structures and inspired by the cytoskeleton of living cells. We describe a novel strategy to realize tensegrity structures using planar manufacturing te ...

Springer2017

Development of Bio-inspired Underwater Robot with Adaptive Morphology Capable of Multiple Swimming Modes

Dario Floreano, Jun Shintake, Thibaut André Pierre Paschal, Stefano Mintchev

Bio-inspired underwater robots have several benefits compared to traditional underwater vehicles such as agility, efficiency, and an environmentally friendly body. However, the bio-inspired underwater robots developed so far have a single swimming mode, wh ...

2017

Variable Stiffness Fiber with Self-Healing Capability

Dario Floreano, Jun Shintake, Stefano Mintchev, Alice Tonazzini

A variable stiffness fiber made of silicone and low melting point alloys quickly becomes >700 times softer and >400 times more deformable when heated above 62 °C. It shows remarkable self-healing properties and can be clamped, knitted, and bonded, as shown ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2016

Functional Soft Robotic Actuators Based on Dielectric Elastomers

Jun Shintake

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are a promising soft actuator technology for robotics. Adding robotic functionalities--folding, variable stiffness, and adhesion--into their actuator design is a novel method to create functionalized robots with simpli ...

EPFL2016

Versatile soft grippers with intrinsic electroadhesion based on multifunctional polymer actuators

Dario Floreano, Samuel Rosset, Herbert Shea, Jun Shintake, Bryan Edward Schubert

A highly versatile soft gripper that can handle an unprecedented range of object types is developed based on a new design of dielectric elastomer actuators employing an interdigitated electrode geometry, simultaneously maximizing both electroadhesion and e ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2016

Biomimetic Underwater Robots Based on Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

Dario Floreano, Herbert Shea, Jun Shintake

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs), a soft actuator technology, hold great promise for biomimetic underwater robots. The high-voltages required to drive DEAs can however make them challenging to use in water. This paper demonstrates a method to create D ...

Ieee2016

Rollable Multisegment Dielectric Elastomer Minimum Energy Structures for a Deployable Microsatellite Gripper

Samuel Rosset, Herbert Shea, Muriel Richard, Jun Shintake, Volker Gass, Irina Gavrilovich, Oluwaseun Adelowo Araromi

Debris in space presents an ever-increasing problem for spacecraft in Earth orbit. As a step in the mitigation of this issue, the CleanSpace One (CSO) microsatellite has been proposed. Its mission is to perform active debris removal of a decommissioned nan ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

A Foldable Antagonistic Actuator

Dario Floreano, Samuel Rosset, Herbert Shea, Jun Shintake, Bryan Edward Schubert

We report on an actuator based on dielectric elastomers that is capable of antagonistic actuation and passive folding. This actuator enables foldability in robots with simple structures. Unlike other antagonistic dielectric elastomer devices, our concept u ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Variable Stiffness Actuator for Soft Robotics Using Dielectric Elastomer and Low-Melting-Point Alloy

Dario Floreano, Samuel Rosset, Herbert Shea, Jun Shintake, Bryan Edward Schubert

A novel variable stiffness actuator composed of a dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) and a low-melting-point-alloy (LMPA) embedded silicone substrate is demonstrated. The device which we call variable stiffness dielectric elastomer actuator (VSDEA) enable ...

IEEE2015

Model and design of dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures

Samuel Rosset, Herbert Shea, Jun Shintake, Oluwaseun Adelowo Araromi

Fixing a prestretched dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) on a flexible frame allows transformation of the intrinsic in-plane area expansion of DEAs into complex three-dimensional (3D) structures whose shape is determined by a configuration that minimizes ...

Institute of Physics2014

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