Robotic Materials

Electriflow: Augmenting Books With Tangible Animation Using Soft Electrohydraulic Actuators

2021

Conference Paper

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We present Electriflow: a method of augmenting books with tangible animation employing soft electrohydraulic actuators. These actuators are compact, silent and fast in operation, and can be fabricated with commodity materials. They generate an immediate hydraulic force upon electrostatic activation without an external fluid supply source, enabling a simple and self-contained design. Electriflow actuators produce an immediate shape transition from flat to folded state which enabled their seamless integration into books. For the Emerging Technologies exhibit, we will demonstrate the prototype of a book augmented with the capability of tangible animation.

Author(s): Purnendu and Sasha Novack and Eric Acome and Mirela Alistar and Christoph Keplinger and Mark D. Gross and Carson Bruns and Daniel Leithinger
Book Title: SIGGRAPH ’21: ACM SIGGRAPH 2021 Labs
Pages: 8
Year: 2021
Month: July
Day: 31
Publisher: ACM
Department(s): Robotic Materials
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)
Paper Type: Conference
DOI: 10.1145/3450616.3464523
Event Name: Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference (SIGGRAPH 2021)
Event Place: Virtual Event
Address: New York, NY
ISBN: 978-1-4503-8369-1
URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3450616.3464523

BibTex 

@inproceedings{Keplinger21-DISC-Augmenting,
  title = {Electriflow: Augmenting Books With Tangible Animation Using Soft Electrohydraulic Actuators},
  author = {Purnendu and Novack, Sasha and Acome, Eric and Alistar, Mirela and Keplinger, Christoph and Gross, Mark D. and Bruns, Carson and Leithinger, Daniel},
  booktitle = {SIGGRAPH '21: ACM SIGGRAPH 2021 Labs},
  pages = {8},
  publisher = {ACM},
  address = {New York, NY},
  month = jul,
  year = {2021},
  doi = {10.1145/3450616.3464523},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3450616.3464523},
  month_numeric = {7}
}