University of Electro-Communications eBulletin

Digital Public Media and Mid-air Display Technology

TOKYO, December 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --

University of Electro-Communications (UEC) publishes the December 2018 issue of the UEC e-Bulletin that includes short video profiles of UEC researchers describing their activities in mid-air display technology, soft robots, and molecular materials with ultralong-lived phosphorescence.

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Research highlights from high impact publications are 'soft robotic gripper based on dielectric elastomer actuators', Jun Shintake; 'Digital Public Media: Mid-air Display Technology', Naoya Koizumi; and 'Molecular materials with ultralong-lived room-temperature triplet excitons: Persistent room-temperature phosphorescence and nonlinear optical characteristics under continuous irradiance', Shuzo Hirata

The Topics section features research updates on 'Advanced group IV materials and their applications for ICT devices' by Takahiro Tsukamoto.

News and Events are 'UEC participated in WUST'S 120th Anniversary Celebration' and 'The Irago Conference 2018'.

December 2018 issue of UEC eBulletin 

http://www.ru.uec.ac.jp/e-bulletin/

Research Highlights 

Soft robotic gripper based on dielectric elastomer actuators 

Soft robots that are composed of compliant materials offer important advantages over conventional rigid robots, such as simplified body structure and control, as well as high robustness and versatility.

More

http://www.ru.uec.ac.jp/e-bulletin/research-highlights/2018/soft-robotic-gripper-based-on-dielectric-elastomer-actuators.html

Reference

Jun Shintake, Samuel Rosset, Bryan Schubert, Dario Floreano, Herbert Shea, Versatile soft grippers with intrinsic electro-adhesion based on multifunctional polymer actuators, Advanced Materials, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 231-238, (2015).

Digital Object Identifier : 10.1002/adma.201504264

https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201504264

Digital Public Media: Mid-air Display Technology 

Recently, virtual reality technology plays an important role as an interface between current cyber physical systems and wearable displays, and HMD is HMD is a hot topic. The problem with wearables is that the same information cannot be shared by many users even though they are in the same space. It needs other information presentation and sharing methods that people share together.