Symposia & Program

F-4 : Soft Actuators

Organizers:

Representative
Prof. Hidenori Okuzaki University of Yamanashi
Correspondence
Dr. Takushi Sugino National Institute of AIST [email protected]
Co-Organizers
Ryo YOSHIDA( The University of Tokyo
Takeshi YAMAUCHI Niigata University
Yoshiro TAJITSU Kansai University
Kentaro TAKAGI Nagoya University
Kimio SUMARU National Institute of AIST
Minoru HASHIMOTO Shinshu University
Norihiro KAMAMICHI Tokyo Denki University
Kunitomo KIKUCHI Wakayama University
Tetsu MITSUMATA Niigata University
Masaki FUCHIWAKI Kyushu Institute of Technology
Kinji ASAKA National Institute of AIS
Publication Organizer
Dr. Takushi Sugino National Institute of AIST

Scope:

Soft actuators are devices based on polymer -based materials whose size or shape can change in respone to various stimuli such as thermic, electric, light-, magneto, and chemical ones. Soft actuators have many advantages as compared to conventional actuators and are expected to many emerged applicaitons such as various biomedical, MEMS, portable electronics, etc. This symposium will cover recent progress of research and development on materials, devices, control methods and applicaitons of soft actuators. This symposium will also cover the research and development of those of related topics including machanical sensors and energy harvesting using soft materials. This symposium wll also cover current researches of actuators based on bio-materials as future perspectives of artificial msucle technology.

Topics:

1.Soft actuators
2.Soft mechanical sensors
3.Energy harvestors
4.Bio-actuators
5.Artificial muscles