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Magnetic soft matter for robotics

Descrizione del progetto

Il futuro della robotica morbida

Nel campo in evoluzione della robotica morbida, c’è un bisogno essenziale di esperti in grado di manipolare le proprietà dei materiali utilizzando i campi magnetici. Il progetto MAESTRI, sostenuto dal programma di azioni Marie Skłodowska-Curie, risponderà a questa domanda attraverso una rete di dottorato completa dedicata alla formazione della prossima generazione di specialisti in robotica magnetica morbida. In particolare, riunirà un consorzio di partner accademici e industriali provenienti da diverse discipline come la biologia, la scienza dei materiali e la robotica. Insieme, lavoreranno per sviluppare robot mobili e dispositivi di presa che utilizzano elastomeri e liquidi riempiti di particelle magnetiche. Studiando le relazioni tra sintesi, struttura e proprietà della materia molle magnetica, MAESTRI aprirà la strada a prototipi innovativi.

Obiettivo

This doctoral network (DN) responds to the existing demand for training of a new generation of experts in the emerging sub-field of soft robotics relying on the control of material properties by a magnetic field – magnetic soft robotics. Materials involved are elastomers and complementary liquids, filled with micro- and nanometer-sized magnetic particles. Because the technical problems and tasks involved are complex and require knowledge from different fields of science and technology, the consortium is composed of 7 academic and 2 industrial beneficiaries originating from biology, materials science, physics and robotic engineering. Further 3 associated partners are involved in research and transferable-skills training. The research program will be directed towards demonstration of a number of mobile robots and robot gripping devices with the necessary electronic and control systems, where the essential functional parameters (e.g. the friction coefficient of the robot shoe or the stiffness of the finger joint, etc.) are controlled by permanent or electro-magnets. On the way to the functional prototypes, the synthesis-structure-properties relationships of magnetic soft matter are to be investigated both experimentally and theoretically, because, hitherto, the required dependencies are not available and the underlying physical phenomena are not completely understood. The mechanical part of the soft mobile robots with integrated magnetic soft matter, the necessary electrical and magnetic control circuits, and the adaptive control algorithms for real-time magnetic field tuning and robot behavior generation are to be developed. The carefully designed training program will provide the necessary minimum of interdisciplinary specialist knowledge to all doctoral candidates and prepare them for meeting the challenges in their subsequent careers be that in academia, industry or as entrepreneurs, e.g. by obligatory exposure to industrial environment during secondments.

Campo scientifico (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifica i progetti con EuroSciVoc, una tassonomia multilingue dei campi scientifici, attraverso un processo semi-automatico basato su tecniche NLP.

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Coordinatore

OSTBAYERISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE REGENSBURG
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 260 539,20
Indirizzo
SEYBOTHSTRASSE 2
93053 Regensburg
Germania

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Regione
Bayern Oberpfalz Regensburg, Kreisfreie Stadt
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
Nessun dato

Partecipanti (8)

Partner (3)