SubsidieMeestersTextile-Based Wearable Soft Robotics with Integrated Sensing, Actuating and Self Powering Properties
TEXWEAROTS aims to develop a lightweight, knitted soft robotic glove with integrated actuation and sensing for enhanced mobility and reliability in rehabilitation and daily assistance.
Projectdetails
Introduction
Wearable soft robotic devices for rehabilitation and motion assistance have emerged in the past decade as promising robotic systems owing to their adaptable morphologies. Soft robotics allow safer human-robot interactions, as opposed to rigid exoskeletons made of metals.
Material Solutions
Elastomers and textiles have become attractive low-cost and flexible material solutions to build wearable soft robots. Despite their high potential, the demonstrated solutions of previous studies are bulky, unreliable, non-scalable, and have limited portability and mobility.
Challenges
All those drawbacks do not allow practical applications of soft robotic devices for at-home assistance and rehabilitation during activities of daily living, where they are intended and most needed.
Project Objective
The core objective of TEXWEAROTS is to develop untethered knitted soft robotic assistive devices to overcome current drawbacks related to the wearable soft-robotic system reliability, mobility, sustainability, and integration.
Device Development
TEXWEAROTS focuses on the development of a knitted robotic glove free from bulky components with seamlessly integrated actuation, sensing, and self-powering functionalities.
Manufacturing Approach
With my solid experience in textile manufacturing, soft sensors, and soft robotics, I will leverage the latest advances in digital machine knitting to manufacture 3D actuator shells with the integrated functionalities in a monolithic manner. This will lead to garment-like customizable textile-based robotic devices which are highly scalable and reliable.
Actuation Mechanism
Furthermore, I will enable a thermally powered fluidic actuation mechanism through the integration of soft Peltier cooling functionality, which enhances the actuator response time needed for motion assistance applications.
Interdisciplinary Collaboration
TEXWEAROTS combines textile and material science, physiotherapy, robotics, electronics, and biomedical engineering. The proposed novel technologies and manufacturing techniques of the glove will lead to a breakthrough in wearable soft robotics and wearable electronics at wide.
Financiële details & Tijdlijn
Financiële details
| Subsidiebedrag | € 1.479.262 |
| Totale projectbegroting | € 1.479.262 |
Tijdlijn
| Startdatum | 1-11-2022 |
| Einddatum | 31-10-2027 |
| Subsidiejaar | 2022 |
Partners & Locaties
Projectpartners
- ISTANBUL TEKNIK UNIVERSITESIpenvoerder
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Textile-Based Soft Robotics for Virtual Reality Applications
The project aims to develop TexSoRVA, a wearable soft robotic haptic glove for VR, enhancing user engagement and technology readiness through innovative digital machine-knitting techniques.
Soft-exoskeleton suit To Restore Autonomous Locomotion
STROLL aims to develop a lightweight, soft robotic exoskeleton to autonomously restore walking ability in lower-limb paralyzed patients, enhancing their quality of life.
Electrical Modulation of Elastic Moduli
This project aims to develop stimuli-responsive textiles using conjugated polymers to enable tactile communication through adjustable pliability and texture for applications in robotics and virtual reality.
Robotic Fluids for artificial muscles, wearable cooling, and active textiles
ROBOFLUID aims to develop solid-state fluidic devices driven by electric fields to create advanced robotic muscles, wearable coolers, and active textiles for enhanced functionality and efficiency.
MusculoSkeletal Expansion
MUSE aims to develop innovative soft exomuscles for individuals with severe muscle weakness, enhancing daily living through osseointegration and sensory feedback for improved control and efficiency.
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3D Haptic Garments (3D HaGar)
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Self HealINg soft materials for susTainable prOducts
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A Paradigm Shift in Health Monitoring with Electrospun Enzymatic Neomaterials
WOUNDSENS aims to develop innovative wearable biosensors integrated into smart wound dressings to enhance chronic wound monitoring and improve patient quality of life.
Development of the Rehab Move
Het project ontwikkelt de "Rehab Move", een flexibele wearable die blessures voorkomt en trainingseffectiviteit verhoogt door interne en externe bewegingsdata te monitoren en te analyseren.