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Linbots: Soft Modular Robots Utilizing Voice Coils

Robots performing automated tasks in uncontrolled environments need to adapt to environmental changes. Through building large collectives of robots, this robust and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple individual rules. These collectives can also be reconfigured, allowing for adaption to new tas...

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Autores principales: McKenzie, Ross M., Sayed, Mohammed E., Nemitz, Markus P., Flynn, Brian W., Stokes, Adam A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6486669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30566034
http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/soro.2018.0058
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author McKenzie, Ross M.
Sayed, Mohammed E.
Nemitz, Markus P.
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Stokes, Adam A.
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description Robots performing automated tasks in uncontrolled environments need to adapt to environmental changes. Through building large collectives of robots, this robust and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple individual rules. These collectives can also be reconfigured, allowing for adaption to new tasks. Larger collectives are more robust and more capable, but the size of existing collectives is limited by the cost of individual units. In this article, we present a soft, modular robot that we have explicitly designed for manufacturability: Linbots. Linbots use multifunctional voice coils to actuate linearly, to produce audio output, and to sense touch. When used in collectives, the Linbots can communicate with neighboring Linbots allowing for isolated behavior as well as the propagation of information throughout a collective. We demonstrate that these collectives of Linbots can perform complex tasks in a scalable distributed manner, and we show transport of objects by collective peristalsis and sorting of objects by a two-dimensional array of Linbots.
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spelling pubmed-64866692019-04-29 Linbots: Soft Modular Robots Utilizing Voice Coils McKenzie, Ross M. Sayed, Mohammed E. Nemitz, Markus P. Flynn, Brian W. Stokes, Adam A. Soft Robot Original Articles Robots performing automated tasks in uncontrolled environments need to adapt to environmental changes. Through building large collectives of robots, this robust and adaptive behavior can emerge from simple individual rules. These collectives can also be reconfigured, allowing for adaption to new tasks. Larger collectives are more robust and more capable, but the size of existing collectives is limited by the cost of individual units. In this article, we present a soft, modular robot that we have explicitly designed for manufacturability: Linbots. Linbots use multifunctional voice coils to actuate linearly, to produce audio output, and to sense touch. When used in collectives, the Linbots can communicate with neighboring Linbots allowing for isolated behavior as well as the propagation of information throughout a collective. We demonstrate that these collectives of Linbots can perform complex tasks in a scalable distributed manner, and we show transport of objects by collective peristalsis and sorting of objects by a two-dimensional array of Linbots. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2019-04-01 2019-04-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6486669/ /pubmed/30566034 http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/soro.2018.0058 Text en © Ross M. McKenzie et al. 2019; Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. This Open Access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Linbots: Soft Modular Robots Utilizing Voice Coils
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6486669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30566034
http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/soro.2018.0058
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