Snap and Jump: How Elastic Shells Pop Out
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| author | Abe, Takara Hashiguchi, Isamu Nakahara, Yukitake Kobayashi, Shunsuke Tarumi, Ryuichi Takahashi, Hidetoshi Ishigami, Genya Sano, Tomohiko G. |
| author_facet | Abe, Takara Hashiguchi, Isamu Nakahara, Yukitake Kobayashi, Shunsuke Tarumi, Ryuichi Takahashi, Hidetoshi Ishigami, Genya Sano, Tomohiko G. |
| contents | Grip, walk, crawl, and jump. Soft robots are integrated functional structures composed of compliant mechanisms, whose activity spans various industrial applications such as surgery, healthcare, surveillance, and even planetary exploration. One of their promising mobility mechanism is snap-buckling; the instability mode of flexible structures passing from one equilibrium state to another can instantaneously generate large power for its motion. Predicting their performance with even simple geometry requires disentangling material, geometric nonlinearity, and contact, thereby still being a challenging problem to date. Here, we study the jumping dynamics of hemispherical elastic shells driven by snap-buckling, as a model system of soft jumping mechanisms, combining experiments, simulations, and analytical theory. We find that the contact transition dynamics trigger the jumping phenomenon upon snap-buckling by constructing the analytical predictions with shell elasticity in excellent agreement with both experiments and simulations. Despite the simple geometry of the shell, its dynamical performance primarily relies on a complex interplay between elasticity, geometry, and contact friction. By elucidating the dynamics of the building blocks of soft robots that undergo large deformations, we can build their predictive experimental and numerical framework. Our research paves the way for designing soft robots suitable for the required loading conditions or structural requirements without empirical methods. |
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| spellingShingle | Snap and Jump: How Elastic Shells Pop Out Abe, Takara Hashiguchi, Isamu Nakahara, Yukitake Kobayashi, Shunsuke Tarumi, Ryuichi Takahashi, Hidetoshi Ishigami, Genya Sano, Tomohiko G. Soft Condensed Matter Materials Science Statistical Mechanics Grip, walk, crawl, and jump. Soft robots are integrated functional structures composed of compliant mechanisms, whose activity spans various industrial applications such as surgery, healthcare, surveillance, and even planetary exploration. One of their promising mobility mechanism is snap-buckling; the instability mode of flexible structures passing from one equilibrium state to another can instantaneously generate large power for its motion. Predicting their performance with even simple geometry requires disentangling material, geometric nonlinearity, and contact, thereby still being a challenging problem to date. Here, we study the jumping dynamics of hemispherical elastic shells driven by snap-buckling, as a model system of soft jumping mechanisms, combining experiments, simulations, and analytical theory. We find that the contact transition dynamics trigger the jumping phenomenon upon snap-buckling by constructing the analytical predictions with shell elasticity in excellent agreement with both experiments and simulations. Despite the simple geometry of the shell, its dynamical performance primarily relies on a complex interplay between elasticity, geometry, and contact friction. By elucidating the dynamics of the building blocks of soft robots that undergo large deformations, we can build their predictive experimental and numerical framework. Our research paves the way for designing soft robots suitable for the required loading conditions or structural requirements without empirical methods. |
| title | Snap and Jump: How Elastic Shells Pop Out |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter Materials Science Statistical Mechanics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08525 |