Part I Introduction 1. Progress and Current Status of Materials and Properties of Soft Actuators Hidenori Okuzaki 2. Current Status of Applications and Markets of Soft Actuators Kinji Asaka and Kayo Nakamura Part II Materials of Soft Actuators: Thermo-Driven Soft Actuators 3. Electromagnetic Heating Takeshi Yamauchi 4. Thermo-Responsive Nanofiber Mats Fabricated by Electrospinning Hidenori Okuzaki 5. Evolution of Self-Oscillating Polymer Gels as Autonomous Soft Actuators Ryo Yoshida 6. Polyrotaxane Actuators Abu Bin Imran, Mohammad Harun-Ur-Rashid, and Yukikazu Takeoka Part III Materials of Soft Actuators: Electro-Driven Soft Actuators 7. Ionic Conductive Polymers Kunitomo Kikuchi and Shigeki Tsuchitani 8.
Conducting Polymers Keiichi Kaneto 9. Humidity-Sensitive Conducting Polymer Actuators Hidenori Okuzaki 10. Carbon Nanotube/Ionic Liquid Composites Takushi Sugino, Kenji Kiyohara, and Kinji Asaka 11. Ion Gels for Ionic Polymer Actuators Masayoshi Watanabe, Satoru Imaizumi, Tomohiro Yasuda, and Hisashi Kokubo 12. Ionic Liquid/Polyurethane/PEDOT:PSS Composite Actuators Hidenori Okuzaki 13. Dielectric Gels Toshihiro Hirai 14. Dielectric Elastomers Seiki Chiba 15. Piezoelectric Polymers Yoshiro Tajitsu 16.
Thermal and Electrical Actuation of Liquid Crystal Elastomers/Gels Kenji Urayama Part IV Materials of Soft Actuators: Light-Driven Soft Actuators 17. Spiropyran-Functionalized Hydrogels Kimio Sumaru, Toshiyuki Takagi, Shinji Sugiura, and Toshiyuki Kanamori 18. Photomechanical Energy Conversion with Cross-Linked Liquid-Crystalline Polymers Jun-ichi Mamiya 19. Photoredox Reaction Tetsu Tatsuma Part V Materials of Soft Actuators: Magneto-Driven Soft Actuators 20. Magnetic Fluid Composite Gels Toshihiro Hirai 21. Magnetic Particle Composite Gels Tetsu Mitsumata Part VI Modeling 22. Molecular Mechanism of Electrically Induced Volume Change of Porous Electrodes Kenji Kiyohara, Takushi Sugino, and Kinji Asaka 23. Computational Modeling of Mechanical Sensors Using Ionic Electro-Active Polymers Yutaka Toi and Seongwon Yoo 24.
Distributed Parameter System Modeling Kentaro Takagi, Gou Nishida, Bernhard Maschke, and Kinji Asaka 25. Control of Electro-Active Polymer Actuators with Considering Characteristics Changes Norihiro Kamamichi 26. Motion Design-A Gel Robot Approach Mihoko Otake 27. Motion Control Minoru Hashimoto 28. IPMC Actuation Mechanisms and Multi-Physical Modeling Zicai Zhu, Hualing Chen, and Longfei Chang 29. Sensing Properties and Physical Model of Ionic Polymer Zicai Zhu, Hualing Chen, and Yanjie Wang 30. Modelling of Dielectric Elastomer Actuator Bo Li, Hualing Chen, and Guimin Chen 31. Modelling of Dielectric Gel using Multi-Physics Coupling Theory Bo Li, Longfei Chang, and Yanjie Wang 32.
Modeling and Control of Fishing-Line/Sewing-Thread Artificial Muscles (Twisted and Coiled Polymer Fibers, TCPFs) Kentaro Takagi, Norihiro Kamamichi, Ken Masuya, Kenji Tahara, Toshihira Irisawa, and Kinji Asaka Part VII Applications 33. Underwater Soft Robots Kentaro Takagi, Zhi-Wei Luo, and Kinji Asaka 34. IPMC Actuator-Based Multifunctional Underwater Microrobots Shuxiang Guo and Liwei Shi 35. Medical Applications Tadashi Ihara and Taro Nakamura 36. Elastomer Transducers Mikio Waki and Seiki Chiba 37. Dielectric Elastomer Sensors: Development of Stretchable Strain Sensor System Hideo Otaka Part VIII Next-Generation Bio-Actuators 38. Tissue Engineering Approach to Making Soft Actuators Toshia Fujisato, Shunya Takagi, Tomohiro Nakamura, and Hiroshi Tsutsui 39. Integration of Soft Actuators based on a Biomolecular Motor System to Develop Artificial Machines Jakia Jannat Keya, Kentaro Kayano, Arif Md.
Rashedul Kabir, and Akira Kakugo 40. Employing Cytoskeletal Treadmilling in Bio-Actuators Ryuzo Kawamura, Ken-Ichi Sano, and Yoshihito Osada.