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CMOS-Inspired Complementary Fluidic Circuits for Soft Robots

Song, Sukho  
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Joshi, Sagar  
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Paik, Jamie  
August 29, 2021
Advanced Science

The latest efforts in digital fluidic circuits' research aim at being electronics-free, light-weight, and compliant controllers for soft robots; however, challenges arise to adjust the fluidic circuit's digital logic operations. Currently there is no other way to modulate the amplitude or frequency but to structurally redesign the entire fluidic circuitry. This is mainly because there is currently no method to create an analog circuit-like behavior in the digital fluidic circuits using conventional digitized fluidic gates. In this work, a new approach is presented to designing a circuit with digitized fluidic gates that is comparable to an analog circuit capable of actively tuning the circuit's fluidic characteristics, such as pressure gain, amplitude of output, and time response. For the first time, a pressure-controlled oscillator is modeled, designed, and prototyped that not only controls the fluidic oscillation, but also modulates its frequency using only a single, quasi-static pressure input. It can also demonstrate the circuit's performance for the control of a soft robotic system by actively modulating the motion of a soft earthworm robot up to twice of crawling speeds. This work has distinct contributions to designing and building intelligent pneumatic controllers toward truly comprehensive soft robotic systems.

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research article
DOI
10.1002/advs.202100924
Web of Science ID

WOS:000690847400001

Author(s)
Song, Sukho  
Joshi, Sagar  
Paik, Jamie  
Date Issued

2021-08-29

Published in
Advanced Science
Article Number

2100924

Subjects

Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

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Nanoscience & Nanotechnology

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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

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Chemistry

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Science & Technology - Other Topics

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Materials Science

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analog fluidic circuits

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complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor-inspired fluidic circuits

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controllable fluidic self-oscillator

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electronics-free controllers

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soft robotics

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microfluidic devices

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integrated-circuits

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microvalve

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gripper

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valves

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logic

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