A Review of Smart Materials for the Boost of Soft Actuators,Soft Sensors,and Robotics Applications

作     者：Yufei Hao Shixin Zhang Bin Fang Fuchun Sun Huaping Liu Haiyuan Li Yufei Hao;Shixin Zhang;Bin Fang;Fuchun Sun;Huaping Liu;Haiyuan Li

作者机构：School of mechanical engineeringUniversity of Science and Technology BeijingBeijing 100083China School of Engineering and TechnologyChina University of Geosciences(Beijing)Beijing 100083China Department of Computer Science and TechnologyTsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and TechnologyTsinghua UniversityBeijing 100084China School of AutomationBeijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsBeijing 100876China 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering》 (中国机械工程学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2022年第35卷第2期

页      面：12-27页

核心收录：

学科分类：08[工学] 080202[工学-机械电子工程] 080501[工学-材料物理与化学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0802[工学-机械工程] 0811[工学-控制科学与工程] 

基　　金：Supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2019YFB 1309800) National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.62173197,91848206) Beijing Science&Technology Project(Grant No.Z191100008019008). 

主　　题：Smart material Soft robot Actuator Sensor 

摘      要：With the advance of smart material science,robotics is evolving from rigid robots to soft robots.Compared to rigid robots,soft robots can safely interact with the environment,easily navigate in unstructured fields,and be minimized to operate in narrow spaces,owning to the new actuation and sensing technologies developed by the smart materials.In the review,different actuation and sensing technologies based on different smart materials are analyzed and summarized.According to the driving or feedback signals,actuators are categorized into electrically responsive actuators,thermally responsive actuators,magnetically responsive actuators,and photoresponsive actuators;sensors are categorized into resistive sensors,capacitive sensors,magnetic sensors,and optical waveguide sensors.After introducing the principle and several robotic prototypes of some typical materials in each category of the actuators and sensors.The advantages and disadvantages of the actuators and sensors are compared based on the categories,and their potential applications in robotics are also presented.