Thesis

Every year, around 8 million tons of plastic waste go into the ocean.

By creating a soft robot, safe around wildlife, and capable of traveling in places dangerous to humans, we could clean the ocean more efficiently.

Precedents: What inspired me?

A jelly fish is a perfect model because the bot would move efficiently and repel wildlife due to its shape.

From the very beginning, I knew I wanted to mimic marine life. My main inspiration is the jellyfish.

Prototype Progression

My first idea was to make a fish-like bot.

Finally, I made some modifications and added pneumatics.

I then experimented with a jelly fish model

Construction Diagram

Final Product:

Bot In Action:

Thesis

My idea for a project is to design and build a glove that can help people with motor deficiencies in the hand. I think it could be very beneficial to people who have suffered strokes, Parkinson's disease, or have other disabilities that make movement in their hands difficult. 

How?

The glove would inflate with air pressure on the back of the fingers from an air pump on the topside of the wrist, but also would have a function where strings attached to the finger tips would go down the glove held by little sleeves,and would wrap around a motor/wheel on the bottom on the underside of the wrist, that can twist and pull the strings, which would help to bend the fingers for people who have trouble with motions such as that. 

Problems

Person having trouble moving their hand

Here are some precedents for my glove project. My design was based off of these images that I found while researching about soft robotics gloves. Harvard's bio design lab's website had an example of a glove that could help with motor ability in the hand (top right) and it intrigued me very much, which in a way kick started this project. The features of the glove were inspired by both images, with the string suspension mechanism and the inflatable mechanism on the back of the fingers, and that influenced how I wanted to design my glove. The concept for the project was heavily inspired by the Wyss institute's glove prototype, that used air pressure and soft robotic materials to temporarily transfer mobility back into the hand of someone who does not have much.

Precedents

Storyboard

Sketch

Iterations

The finger bending mechanism gets inflated with air and bends forward

The updated finger bending mechanism is inflated with air and bends forward even further

Different iterations of the finger bending mechanism as it got upgraded over time.

Demonstrations

Silicone Experiements

I used the silicone molding material called Dragon Skin 10 to attempt to 1. make a glove with the silicone material, (left) and then 2. to use it as a passage way to combine air tubes from one air source to separate into different tubes for the five finger bending mechanism on the back of each finger (right, and on the next slide)

Silicone Experiments continued

Here is what the mechanism of silicone air passage way split off would have looked like.

Motorized string puller

A mechanism I also worked on was using a motor to pull the strings in the front sot that the fingers bend

The End

Thank you for reading/watching!

Thesis

For my presentation, my goal was to create a bridge that would stiffen and inflate by itself. Of course it was designed to be small scale, but the idea was of course first designed for humans to walk on through the power of pneumatics.

This was the storyboard for the design that I started with. The extendable mechanism is housed in a small box that with the push of a button extends outwards and inflates itself.

This idea can be used in many different situations ranging from rescue missions in the mountains over a gap, or with firemen trying to save someone through the window of another building.

Precedents

This is a design created for more of an urban environment that also uses the power of pneumatics. I was inspired by this design, but also wanted to create a more portable and durable version that could be used when hiking or in rescue missions with firefighters or special forces.

First iterations of extendable mesh

At the very beginning of the project I imagined that the mesh that would extend out from the box to firm up and create a bridge would be made out of plastic, but with the materials I had it was actually quite challenging. I started off by gluing the plastic together then melding it together with a soldering iron and sowing it to fill in the cracks. Due to my lack of my materials, I decided to go with glueing and stapling two pieces of paper together because it was the most firm and air-tight.

Thesis

My soft catapult is for entertainment and education. It uses pneumatics to inflate and deflate different parts of the arm, causing it to hurl a projectile. It is a cool toy to play with, while also teaching about soft robotic concepts.

- Festo Robot

- Full range of motion

- Lot of force

Kid has fun with catapult and learns about soft robotic concepts

Iterations

- Balloons inflating/deflating

- Vacuum jamming

Tape causes balloon to bend when inflated

Basket holds projectile

Thesis

Mopping robot is a device that authomatically cleans your floor. Because cleaning is a not fun process.

Storyboard

My robot has a sensor to avoid obstacles, 4 motors: 2 to clean and another 2 to move. A pump to bring water into the rag. and off course an arduino to control everything.

Most of us sometimes have this problems: 

There is no your size in the shop

The size fits perfectly the one part of your body, but doesn't fit other parts at all

Your chid has already grown out of clothes in a month

My idea is to make a soft robotic mechanism that can change lenght and width of tissue 

Diagram of my prototyps

My prototyps

How does it work

Conclusion

My main idea is to put my mechanism on the back side of clothes. It will help changing size as you want

Ideas to improve my mechanism:

- Add small magnets. They will help vacuum hold folds and will make clothes look neat

- Creat something to make the mechanism changing place , because different people have different problems with the size 

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