Liquid Metal Soft Machines - Principles and Applications (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

This book discusses the core principles and practical applications of a brand new machine category: liquid-metal soft machines and motors. After a brief introduction on the conventional soft robot and its allied materials, it presents the new conceptual liquid-metal machine, which revolutionizes existing rigid robots, both large and small. It outlines the typical features of the soft liquid-metal materials and describes the various transformation capabilities, mergence of separate metal droplets, self-rotation and planar locomotion of liquid-metal objects under external or internal mechanism. Further, it introduces a series of unusual phenomena discovered while developing the shape changeable smart soft machine and interprets the related mechanisms regarding the effects of the shape, size, voltage, orientation and geometries of the external fields to control the liquid-metal transformers. Moreover, the book illustrates typical strategies to construct a group of different advanced functional liquid-metal soft machines, since such machines or robots are hard to fabricate using rigid-metal or conventional materials. With highly significant fundamental and practical findings, this book is intended for researchers interested in establishing a general method for making future smart soft machine and accompanying robots.

General

Imprint:	Springer Verlag, Singapore
Country of origin:	Singapore
Series:	Topics in Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering
Release date:	October 2018
First published:	2019
Authors:	Jing Liu • Lei Sheng • Zhi-Zhu He
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	372
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-981-13-2708-7
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Industrial chemistry & manufacturing technologies > Metals technology / metallurgy Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Biomedical engineering > General Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Artificial intelligence > General Books > Professional & Technical > Mechanical engineering & materials > Mechanical engineering > Engines & power transmission > General Books > Professional & Technical > Mechanical engineering & materials > Materials science > Mechanics of fluids > General Books > Professional & Technical > Electronics & communications engineering > Electronics engineering > Automatic control engineering > Robotics
LSN:	981-13-2708-4
Barcode:	9789811327087

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