2020 CEE Evgueni Filipov Microbots
A new generation of micro-robotics inside Evgueni Filipov's lab at the G.G. Brown Building on North Campus, Ann Arbor MI on June 17, 2020.
Evgueni Filipov, CEE Assistant Professor , and his research team are introducing an integrated fabrication-design-actuation methodology of an electro-thermal micro-origami system that addresses the challenges that are slowing down possible applications into the robotic and biomedical world.
Filipov's nanobots offer controllable and localized joule heating from electro-thermal actuator arrays that enables rapid, large-angle, and reversible elastic folding, while overheating can achieve plastic folding to reprogram the static 3D geometry.
Because the proposed micro-origami do not rely on an environmental stimulusfor actuation, they can function in different atmospheric environments and perform
controllable multi-degrees-of-freedom shape morphing, allowing them to achieve complex motions and advanced functions.
The proposed origami systems are suitable for creating medical devices, metamaterials, and micro-robots, where rapid folding
and enhanced control are desired.
Photo: Robert Coelius/University of Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing
2020 CEE Evgueni Filipov Microbots
A new generation of micro-robotics inside Evgueni Filipov's lab at the G.G. Brown Building on North Campus, Ann Arbor MI on June 17, 2020.
Evgueni Filipov, CEE Assistant Professor , and his research team are introducing an integrated fabrication-design-actuation methodology of an electro-thermal micro-origami system that addresses the challenges that are slowing down possible applications into the robotic and biomedical world.
Filipov's nanobots offer controllable and localized joule heating from electro-thermal actuator arrays that enables rapid, large-angle, and reversible elastic folding, while overheating can achieve plastic folding to reprogram the static 3D geometry.
Because the proposed micro-origami do not rely on an environmental stimulusfor actuation, they can function in different atmospheric environments and perform
controllable multi-degrees-of-freedom shape morphing, allowing them to achieve complex motions and advanced functions.
The proposed origami systems are suitable for creating medical devices, metamaterials, and micro-robots, where rapid folding
and enhanced control are desired.
Photo: Robert Coelius/University of Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing