新技术,制造方法,控制器和计算方法正在迅速推进软机器人的能力。这创造了对适合软机器人多学科性质的设计技术和方法的需求。需要这些来提供形式化和科学的设计方法。在本文中,我们正式化了推动软机器人设计的科学问题;是什么激励了软机器人的设计,以及设计软机器人时的基本挑战是什么?我们回顾了软机器人设计的当前方法和方法,包括生物启发设计,计算设计和人工驱动设计,并强调每种设计方法对所产生的软机器人系统的影响。最后,我们提供了可以帮助机器人设计的新兴方法的分析,我们介绍了一些可能支持这些方法的必要技术。
Novel technologies, fabrication methods, controllers and computational methods are rapidly advancing the capabilities of soft robotics. This is creating the need for design techniques and methodologies that are suited for the multi-disciplinary nature of soft robotics. These are needed to provide a formalized and scientific approach to design. In this paper, we formalize the scientific questions driving soft robotic design; what motivates the design of soft robots, and what are the fundamental challenges when designing soft robots? We
review current methods and approaches to soft robot design including bio-inspired design, computational design and human-driven design, and highlight the implications that each design methods has on the resulting soft robotic systems. To conclude, we provide an analysis of emerging methods which could assist robot design, and we present a
review some of the necessary technologies that may enable these approaches.