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Method and system for self-sustained fluctuation of light-driven artificial muscle and application

An artificial muscle and light-driven technology, applied in manufacturing tools, program-controlled manipulators, manipulators, etc., can solve problems such as the inability to realize independent wave propagation, failure to reach living bodies, and limited applications

Active Publication Date: 2022-08-02
WESTLAKE UNIV
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That is to say, the current soft robot solutions are far from reaching the wave shape at the level of living organisms, and cannot realize the autonomous propagation of waves, which in turn limits the application in many fields such as propulsion and transportation.

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[0041] The preparation method of the artificial muscle provided by this program is as follows:

[0042] Use a mold to preliminarily shape the liquid crystal elastomer oligomer doped with a light absorber to obtain a sheet-like film precursor, uniaxially stretch the sheet-like film precursor and then continue to perform a cross-linking reaction to obtain a film, and cut the film into a certain size. A strip-shaped film can be used to obtain artificial muscles.

[0043] The sheet-like film precursor has a weakly cross-linked network formed by a chemical cross-linking reaction, and the formed incompletely cross-linked sheet-like film precursor is taken out from the mold, and then the sheet-like film precursor is subjected to uniaxial tensile strain. After the tensile strain is fixed, the stretched sheet-like film is induced and fixed by continuing the chemical cross-linking reaction, and an artificial muscle with multiple degrees of freedom contraction, expansion and deformation ...

preparation Embodiment 1

[0064] Preparation of artificial muscles:

[0065] According to RM82: the molar ratio of ketoacid cyanine dye is 9:1, the molar ratio of DODT:PETMP is 3:1, the molar ratio of reactant thiol group:acrylate group is 1:1, and the organic solvent is selected as dichloromethane, Shake for 30s and mix well. Add 4wt% DPA to the mixed solution as a catalyst. After shaking and dissolving, pour the precursor solution into a 3cm◇3cm◇0.5cm square mold. After reacting at room temperature for 3h, carefully peel off the mold to obtain Incompletely cross-linked film precursor; the prepared incompletely cross-linked film is stretched by 50% and fixed for 24h to make the thiol group and the acrylate group completely react and cross-link to cure to obtain a monodomain oriented liquid crystal elasticity body film. Finally, a strip-shaped rectangular structure was cut with a blade parallel to the orientation direction to serve as an artificial muscle.

Embodiment 1

[0067] A method for light-driven artificial muscles to generate torsional waves from continuous fluctuations:

[0068] The artificial muscle obtained in Preparation Example 1 is 15mm in length, 3mm in width, 0.12mm in thickness, and has a fixed distance of 12mm at both ends, as shown in figure 2 The artificial muscle is irradiated with a near-infrared light source, wherein the spot size of the near-infrared light source is 15mm × 15mm, and the light intensity is ~0.15W cm -2 , the incident angle is 20°, and the structured light spot is as image 3 shown.

[0069] Result: as Figure 4 As shown, after turning on the near-infrared light source, the artificial muscle produced a continuous torsional wave motion behavior with a frequency and amplitude of 0.7 Hz and 1.7 mm, respectively. Figure 4 The lower graph illustrates the periodic variation in amplitude and frequency of the torsional wave motion.

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Abstract

The invention provides a light-driven artificial muscle self-sustained fluctuation method and device and application, the two ends of a bent artificial muscle are fixed, a light source is driven to irradiate the artificial muscle, the raw material of the artificial muscle is a light-induced deformation high polymer material doped with a light absorbent, and the light absorbent is doped with the light absorbent. Under the stimulation of a driving light source, the artificial muscle automatically and continuously generates local contraction and expansion through the bending structure to generate a wave structure, the wave structure comprises but is not limited to torsional waves, edge waves and central waves, the artificial structure can automatically generate different waveforms under the irradiation of different structural light spots, and the waveforms can be propagated in a certain direction. And the artificial muscle can realize structural programming of any creeping waves, so that the artificial muscle can be applied to various wave control scenes.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the field of energy mechanical conversion, in particular to a method, system and application for self-sustained fluctuation of light-driven artificial muscles. Background technique [0002] Building an adaptive and autonomous soft robotic system with programmable shape deformation has promising applications in science and engineering. For biological systems, such as gastropods, their soft sheet-like tissue can be deformed into a three-dimensional wave shape, and the wave motion can be generated by self-oscillation, which provides a general and convenient method for automatic propulsion, transportation, etc. However, in order to artificially generate wave motion, traditional robotic systems need to integrate many discrete drives, each of which is individually controlled and powered in a coordinated manner, which inevitably leads to the design, manufacture of wave systems. , control, and power complexities, especially as a robot...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): B25J9/16B25J11/00
CPCB25J9/1669B25J11/00
Inventor 吕久安赵桐辉
Owner WESTLAKE UNIV