Soft Actuators Materials, Modeling, Applications, and Future Perspec
This book is the second edition of Soft Actuators, originally published in 2014, with 12 chapters added to the first edition. The subject of this new edition is current comprehensive research and development of soft actuators, covering interdisc
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ft Actuators
Materials, Modeling, Applications, and Future Perspectives Second Edition
Soft Actuators
Kinji Asaka • Hidenori Okuzaki Editors
Soft Actuators Materials, Modeling, Applications, and Future Perspectives Second Edition
Editors Kinji Asaka National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Ikeda, Japan
Hidenori Okuzaki Graduate Faculty of Interdisciplinary Research University of Yamanashi Kofu, Japan
ISBN 978-981-13-6849-3 ISBN 978-981-13-6850-9 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6850-9
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Preface
A variety of soft actuators has so far been developed not only from the fundamental viewpoint of basic material science, chemistry, physics, and biology but also from the engineering viewpoint for the practical applications to light-weight, low-cost, no-noise, less-pollution, and high-efficiency micro- and macro-artificial muscles and soft robotic systems. The 1st edition of this book “Soft Actuators: Materials, Modeling, Applications, and Future Perspectives” published in 2014 reviewed current and comprehensive research and development of soft actuators, and encompasses interdisciplinary studies of materials science and chemistry, mechanics, electronics, robotics, and bioscience. The topics of this book updated the preceding book (in Japanese) entitled “Soft Actuators which Drive Future Technologies -Recent R&D Activities Focused on Polymers and Biomaterials-” edited by Prof. Yoshihito Osada (Riken) and Prof. Takahisa Taguchi (AIST) published by CMC Publishing Co., Ltd. in 2010. In the 2nd edition, we int
