Abstract:
Scientists have been seeking for more sustainable and green technology to mitigate the adverse impact on environment and human society. Along with the development of soft robotics field, more and more new sustainable, soft and smart materials have been developed and have been used for fabricating various kinds of soft robots. At the same time, 3D printing technology has been experiencing an extraordinary boom and has been utilized in many fields across industry and education. 3D printing has also been investigated intensively by researchers in the field of soft robotics for fast prototyping soft and complex structures and mechanisms. 4D printing technology, as a relatively new concept proposed almost a decade ago, targets on printing smart materials which can spontaneously generate deformation or change physical properties after printing. The combination of smart material and 3D/4D printing technologies is opening new opportunities for developing novel soft robots and interesting applications. This workshop aims at bringing together distinguish researchers from different research fields including material science, 3D/4D printing, and soft robotics to identify, discuss, and explore the opportunities and potentials in using smart materials and 3D/4D printing for soft robotics applications. Topics will cover broadly smart materials, fabrication, theoretical modeling, simulation, and applications of sustainable soft robotics. In addition, we will showcase a hydrogel 3D printer which will be brought to the workshop and demonstration will be conducted during the workshop.
Time: 9:00-13:10, Oct. 14, 2024
Location: Room 12, Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC)
Invited Speakers
Program
Time | Speaker | Title |
9:00 – 9:10 | Organizer | Opening and introduction |
9:10 – 9:30 | Hidemitsu Furukawa | 3D/4D gel printing system as a co-creation platform |
9:30 – 9:50 | Ali Zolfagharian | A journey through time: soft actuators and 4D printing |
9:50 – 10:10 | Jonathan Rossiter | Printing reactive gels and environmental robots |
10:10 – 10:30 | Poster spotlight teaser session | Poster spotlight teaser session |
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break and poster session | Coffee break and poster session |
11:00 – 11:20 | Zhe Qiu | Introduction of 3D gel printer GelPiPer |
11:20 – 11:40 | Li Zhang | Magnetic miniature robots with programming of ferromagnetic soft materials |
11:40 – 12:00 | Lijie Grace Zhang | 4D printing multi-responsive smart structures for biomedical applications |
12:00 – 12:20 | Jinhwan Yoon | Direct ink writing of soft materials for deformable optoelectronics |
12:20 – 12:40 | Huichan Zhao | Empowering soft robots with high-power-density artificial muscles and multimodal sensors |
12:40 – 13:00 | Yoshikatsu Hayashi | Resonance, entrainment, and memory in self-oscillating hydrogels |
13:00 – 13:10 | Organizer | Closing remark |
Call for Contributions
We call for posters to be presented on the workshop. Authors should submit an extended abstract (max 2 pages) as a PDF in the standard IEEE conference format before the submission deadline of Sept. 1st, 2024. The PDF should be sent to qiuzhe@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp and the email subject should be “[IROS 2024 Workshop] abstract submission“. The accepted abstracts will be invited to join the poster session at the workshop. Before the workshop, these authors are required to submit a one-page slide to the organizer. They will have 2-3 minutes to briefly introduce their work in poster spotlight teaser session and show their posters during the coffee break.
One “Best Poster Award” and two “Best Poster Runner-Up Award” will be granted based on the evaluations by the invited speakers and audience. The content of the posters can have chances to be summarized and published in potential journals such as Advanced Robotics etc.
Topics of Interest:
- Printing soft robotics
- 3D/4D printing
- Multimaterial 3D/4D printing
- Smart materials and functional structure
- Stimuli responsive materials
- Hydrogels
Timeline:
- Submission deadline: 09/01/2024
- Notification: 09/15/2024
- Submission method: email to qiuzhe@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp
Organizers
Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan
University of Bristol, UK
National University of Singapore
Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan