Biomimetic design of self-healing soft grippers
Research Group Activity
- Design and synthesis functional polymers and nanocomposites
- Self-healing dielectric elastomers for actuation and energy harvesting
- Biodegradable polymers
Project Description
The global COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the needs for safety and automation in industries, which has driven the fast progress of smart soft robotics in different areas such as e-products, food processing, textile, healthcare, and biometric monitoring.
Gripping is one of the essential and most challenging tasks for soft robotics. Soft grippers are designed to sense and handle objects that are challenging to conventional rigid robotic‚ such as fragile, irregular or even flat objects. While, the materials selection, structural design, adaptivity and manufacturing methods need to be well-optimised in order to achieve these tasks.
The internship project will offer a great opportunity for the student to experience interdisciplinary research, from biomimetic design, polymer synthesis, characterisation, manufacturing technologies to device demonstration. This will allow the student to develop his/her research interest, technical skills and academic training for their future research and career development, in the area of polymer science, manufacturing, biomimetic robotics.
Required Skills
Polymer chemistry, CAD, mechanical engineering;
Self-motivation and Team player
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