Özgür ATALAY ve ekibi TEXWEAROTS Projesi kapsamında tekstil teknolojisi ile robotik bilimini bir araya getiren tekstil temelli robotik yapılar üretilerek bu yapıların kas güçsüzlüğü yaşayan bireylerin tedavisinde kullanılması hedeflenmektedir.
2019 yılında AB Ufuk 2020 Programı kapsamında Marie Skladowska Curie Individual Fellowship tarafından fonlanan ATALAY’ın proje önerisi TÜBİTAK ERC Baş Araştırmacı Geliştirme Programı kapsamında desteklenmiştir.
Çağrı: ERC-2021-StG
Proje Süresi: 5 yıl
Proje Akonimi: TEXWEAROTS
Proje Başlığı: Textile-Based Wearable Soft Robotics with Integrated Sensing, Actuating and Self Powering Properties
Proje Numarası: 101042402
Ev Sahibi Kurum: İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi
Panel: PE8 - Products and Processes Engineering
İlgili ERC Proof of Concept Projesi: TexSoRVA
A knitted glove like no other
Wearable technologies are in fashion, and one of the latest trends is soft robotics. Their adaptable morphologies are made possible by the flexible material used to make them. While elastomers and textiles are cheap and efficient, they are bulky, non-scalable and have limited portability and mobility. The ERC-funded TEXWEAROTS project will try untethered knitted soft robotic assistive devices to overcome current drawbacks. Specifically, it will develop a knitted robotic glove with seamlessly integrated actuation, sensing, and self-powering functionalities. Advances in digital machine knitting will enable the manufacture of 3D actuator shells with the integrated functionalities in a monolithic manner. Using novel technologies and techniques, the glove will lead to a breakthrough in wearable soft robotics.
Objective
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. 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. 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. 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. TEXWEAROTS focuses on the development of a knitted robotic glove free from bulky components with seamlessly integrated actuation, sensing, and self-powering functionalities. 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. Furthermore, I will enable thermally powered fluidic actuation mechanism through integration of soft Peltier cooling functionality which enhances the actuator response time needed for motion assistance applications. 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.
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