Title : 
Detachment Control Analysis for Nanofabricated Adhesive Mimicking Gecko Foot-Hairs
         
        
            Author : 
Ren, Niaofei ; Wang, Xiaohua ; Mei, Tao ; Wang, Huijing
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Inst. of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Acad. of Sci., Hefei
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The power assumption is costly to apply external forces with respect to the detachment control of nanofabricated adhesive mimicking gecko foot-hairs. With a purpose of low power consumption and high efficiency, this paper describe an implement in which the array is designed to slant to a certain angle before applying external pull-off force in reference to the detachment mechanism of geckos´ toes. In the paper also includes the analysis of the influence on external pull-off force from different parameter settings of the array and different array deformations due to the deformation of functional materials. Finally the paper justifies the approach is totally applicable with the comparison of the pull-off forces in different ways
         
        
            Keywords : 
adhesive bonding; adhesives; force control; nanotechnology; process control; detachment control analysis; external pull-off force; low power consumption; nanofabricated adhesive mimicking gecko foot-hairs; Adhesives; Automatic control; Automation; Biomimetics; Energy consumption; Force control; Force measurement; Machine intelligence; Mechatronics; Structural beams; Nanofabricated array; detachment control; dry adhesive;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Mechatronics and Automation, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Luoyang, Henan
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
1-4244-0465-7
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
1-4244-0466-5
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICMA.2006.257525