WW-EAP Newsletter, Vol. 20, No. 1, June 2018 (The 39th issue) WorldWide ElectroActive Polymers EAP (Artificial Muscles) Newsletter Vol. 20, No. 1 (39th issue) WW-EAP Newsletter June 2018 http://eap.jpl.nasa.gov FROM THE EDITOR ABOUT THE EXPERTS Yoseph Bar-Cohen, [email protected] Herbert Shea was promoted to Full This Newsletter issue reports the latest progress in Professor the fields of Electroactive Polymers (EAP) and In December 2017, Biomimetics. Herbert Shea was LIST OF CONTENTS promoted to Full FROM THE EDITOR ..................................................... 1 Professor of ABOUT THE EXPERTS ............................................... 1 Microtechnology in Herbert Shea was promoted to Full Professor .................. 1 the Ecole GENERAL NEWS ......................................................... 1 Polytechnique Standard for EAP .......................................................... 2 Fédérale de UPCOMING CONFERENCES ...................................... 2 2019 SPIE EAPAD Conference ...................................... 2 Lausanne (EPFL), TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES ... 2 Switzerland. Over Seeking concepts of autonomous fully controllable the course of his "endoscope" ............................................................ 2 successful RECENT CONFERENCES ........................................... 3 scientific career, Herb has conducted research in a 2018 SPIE EAPAD Conference ...................................... 3 wide range of fields relating to applied physics and ADVANCES IN EAP ................................................... 14 microtechnology. Since joining the EPFL in 2004, Aerospace Engineering-Propulsion/MEMS ................... 14 ElastiSense ApS, Denmark .......................................... 15 he has led research in Dielectric Elastomer Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Orlando, FL ..... 16 Actuators, with pioneering work in miniaturized Imperial College London ............................................. 17 high-speed DEAs and in compliant electrode PolyK Technologies, LLC; State College, PA ................ 19 technology. His current research at EPFL focuses University of Colorado Boulder .................................... 19 on polymer-based transducers for soft robotics, University of Hong Kong ............................................. 21 FUTURE CONFERENCES ......................................... 22 haptics, and cell biology. EAP ARCHIVES .......................................................... 23 Biomimetics books series ............................................. 23 GENERAL NEWS Books about robotics ................................................... 24 The WW-EAP Webhub http://eap.jpl.nasa.gov is Other books ................................................................ 25 periodically being updated with information regarding the EAP activity worldwide. This 1 WW-EAP Newsletter, Vol. 20, No. 1, June 2018 (The 39th issue) Webhub is a link of the JPL’s NDEAA Webhub of On the record of the EAPAD conferences the Advanced Technologies Group having the archive, the following is the list of the Co-chairs address: http://ndeaa.jpl.nasa.gov since the start in 1999 at Newport Beach, CA. Year Co-chair Country Standard for EAP 1999 Mohsen Shahinpoor, U. of New Mexico USA 2000 Steve Wax, DARPA USA A paper about a standard for EAP materials is 2001 Danilo De Rossi, Univ. degli Studi di Pisa Italy posted on the internet and can be read at 2002 Yoshihito Osada, Hokkaido University Japan http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0964-1726/24/10/105025 2003 Geoff Spinks, University of Wollongong Australia 2004 Peter Sommer-Larsen, Risoe National Lab. Denmark UPCOMING CONFERENCES 2005 John D. Madden, U. of British Columbia Canada 2019 SPIE EAPAD Conference 2006 Jae-Do Nam, Sung Kyun Kwan University S. Korea 2007 Gabor Kovacs, EMPA Switzerland The SPIE’s EAPAD conference is going to be held 2008 Emillio P. Calius, Industrial Res. Limited New Zealand again in Denver, Colorado, from March 3 thru 7, 2009 Thomas Wallmersperger, Univ. Stuttgart Germany 2019. This conference, which is part of the Smart 2010 Jinsong Leng, Harbin Institute of Tech. China st Structures Symp., is going to be the 21 annual one 2011 Federico Carpi, Univ. of Pisa Italy and is going to be chaired by Yoseph Bar-Cohen, 2012 Keiichi Kaneto, Kyushu Inst. of Tech. Japan JPL, and Co-chaired by Iain A. Anderson, The 2013 Siegfried Bauer, Johannes Kepler U. Austria Univ. of Auckland (New Zealand) and Nancy L. 2014 Barbar J. Akle, Lebanese American Univ. Lebanon Johnson, General Motors Co., USA. The 2015 Gal deBotton, Ben-Gurion U. of the Negev Israel Conference Program Committee consists of 2016 Frédéric Vidal, U. de Cergy-Pontoise France 2017 Jonathan Rossiter, University of Bristol England representatives from 32 countries. The call for 2018 Iain A. Anderson, The Univ. of Auckland New Zealand papers is posted at: http://www.spie.org/eap Iain A. Anderson, The Univ. of Auckland New Zealand The papers will focus on issues that help 2019 Nancy L. Johnson, General Motors Co. USA transitioning EAP to practical use thru better understanding the principles responsible for the TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT electro-mechanical behavior, analytical modeling, CHALLENGES improved materials and their processing methods, Seeking concepts of autonomous fully characterization of the properties and performance controllable "endoscope" as well as various applications. Studor, George F. (LARC) [TEAMS3 NESC In the 2019 EAPAD Conf., a Special Session is Affiliate] [email protected] going to be “3D Printed EAP Materials: Progress and Challenges” and its Session Chair is Geoff M. NASA Engineering and Safety Center, NDE Spinks, Univ. Wollongong, Australia. Technical Discipline Team's lead for in-space There are going to be two Keynote Speakers and inspection, George Studor, is looking for they are: technologies that can enable the development of a 1. Ray H. Baughman, NanoTech Institute at the fully controllable "endoscope" that is operational at Univ. of Texas in Dallas, who will present zero-gravity onboard the ISS. This advanced "Science and Technology Contributions and endoscope is sought for inspection applications for Accomplishments”, in honor of his 75th birthday. reaching hardware areas that are difficult to access 2. Douglas A. Litteken, NASA Johnson Space Ctr. directly. The scope should be able to be inserted (JSC) will present the paper "Inflatable through existing (1/4") gaps in between racks of Technology: Using Flexible Materials to Make equipment or small (3/8") holes in the front of the Large Structures". racks normally used for fire suppression and controlled to inspection targets 3 to 4 feet behind the panel. It must sense contact and thermal hazards 2 WW-EAP Newsletter, Vol. 20, No. 1, June 2018 (The 39th issue) and be able to avoid creating a hazard during crew- The Conference included 94 presentations and based insertion or retraction. It must not rely on a was well attended by internationally leading field pre-determined model of the physical interior, but experts including members of academia, industry, build the model that it be guided through as it is and government agencies from the USA and inserted, with classification of fixed and moving overseas. The presented papers reported the objects as appropriate. Shape-following technology significant progress that has been made in the will be used to ensure the rest of the snake follows theoretical modeling and analysis of EAP where the head went for insertion and that the entire mechanisms; improved EAP materials, processes, snake follows the same path on extraction. As a fabrication (e.g., 3D printing) and characterization minimum, an LED-illuminator will support the high techniques; emerging EAP actuators (e.g., ionic, res camera at the tip. shape memory polymers, and dielectric EAP); George is also looking for examples from applications of EAP materials including power Nature to apply to fully autonomous inspection generation and energy harvesting, robotics, haptic, methods Autonomous in that the inspection tactile, and various sensors. platform and sensors are able to complete a survey of a given surface for certain features and conduct characterization inspections of identified features of interest (such as MMOD damage) with no involvement of crew or other external controls. The platform will generate and process raw image/data on-board. The inspection base is initially though of as a free-flying platform(UAV, SUV or inspection satellite), crawling robot, endoscope(such as above) or manipulator arm. Considerations of how Natural systems perform similar functions should be Figure 1: Some of the Session co-Chairs of the considered to ensure that efficiency and EAPAD Conf. From left to right: Ji Su, NASA effectiveness are optimized for sensing, navigation, Langley Research Ctr. (United States), Iain control, processing, communication, etc.. Anderson, The Univ. of Auckland (New Zealand), Gabor Kovacs, EMPA (Switzerland), Qibing Pei, RECENT CONFERENCES Univ. of California, Los Angeles (United States), 2018 SPIE EAPAD Conference Ron Pelrine, SRI International (United States); The SPIE’s Electroactive Polymers Actuators and Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Jet Propulsion Lab. (United Devices (EAPAD) Conference continues to be the States), Qiming M. Zhang, The Pennsylvania State leading international forum for presenting the latest Univ. (United States), Herbert Shea, Ecole progress, challenges and potential future directions Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), for the