MANUFACTURING AND EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF A BIOINSPIRED METAMATERIAL FOR SOFT ROBOTICS APPLICATIONS

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dc.contributor.advisorTubaldi, Eleonoraen_US
dc.contributor.authorVarghese, Midhunen_US
dc.contributor.departmentSystems Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-14T05:35:04Z
dc.date.available2021-07-14T05:35:04Z
dc.date.issued2021en_US
dc.description.abstractThe work presented in this thesis discusses the design, manufacturing, and experimental characterization of a novel bioinspired metamaterial soft fluidic actuator that possesses the ability to undergo pattern reconfiguration due to buckling instability during both positive and negative pressures. This phenomenon has not been observed in any previous metamaterial porous structure and is thereby the novelty of this design. This leads to a new class of metamaterials with a negative equivalent Poisson's ratio. The thesis further discusses the various experimental studies performed to characterize the Metamaterial Fluidic Actuator (MFA) both upon inflation and deflation through Pressure-Volume Curves, change of porosity, and variation of equivalent Poisson's ratio. Among potential applications, the MFA has been used as a distributed gripper to manage flexible thin objects and as a modular artificial muscle.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/oweg-ztr6
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/27456
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMechanical engineeringen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledRoboticsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledActuatoren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledArtificial Muscleen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledBioinspireden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDistributed Gripperen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMetamaterialen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSoft Roboten_US
dc.titleMANUFACTURING AND EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF A BIOINSPIRED METAMATERIAL FOR SOFT ROBOTICS APPLICATIONSen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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