Peter Kappel

Project

Demonstrator for soft autonomous machines – soft robotic low energy gripper systems with sensing capabilities based on livMatS Materials
In this project, I am developing a bio-inspired macroscopic soft robotic gripper that will recognize the properties of an object, such as shape, size, weight, and fragility, and adapt its grasping adequately and with appropriate force. This adaptation is to be achieved through decentralized material-immanent processing and material-based embodied intelligence, respectively. By developing and building a modular gripper platform, it will be possible to integrate multi-material systems and sensors developed in livMatS in the future.

First supervisor

Prof. Dr. Thomas Speck

Publications in livMatS

• A Pneumatic Bending Actuator System Inspired by the Avian Tendon Locking Mechanism*
  Kappel, P., Kürner, L., Speck, T., & Tauber, F. (2023). A Pneumatic Bending Actuator System Inspired by the Avian Tendon Locking Mechanism. In: Meder, F., Hunt A., Margheri, L., Mura, A. & Mazzolai, B. (eds.): Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Living Machines 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 84-100). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-39504-8_6
• Application-Oriented Comparison of Two 3D Printing Processes for the Manufacture of Pneumatic Bending Actuators for Bioinspired Macroscopic Soft Gripper Systems*
  Kappel, P., Kramp, C., Speck, T., & Tauber, F. J. (2022). Application-Oriented Comparison of Two 3D Printing Processes for the Manufacture of Pneumatic Bending Actuators for Bioinspired Macroscopic Soft Gripper Systems. In: Hunt, A., et al. (eds.), Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Living Machines 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 54–67), vol 13548. Springer, Cham. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-20470-8_6
  
  
  * Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC-2193/1 – 390951807