OmniFiber Ie Fesuisuia'i Lagona-a-le-Tino e Ozgun Kilic Afsar

O le mamanu OmniFiber Ie Fesuisuia'i Lagona-a-le-Tino e Ozgun Kilic Afsar o se manumalo maualuga tele o le fa'ailoga mamalu 2022 A' Design Award Apamemea i le Vaega Tauva Mamanu Ie.

ApamemeaIe· 2022

OmniFiber Ie Fesuisuia'i Lagona-a-le-Tino

na mamanuina e Ozgun Kilic Afsar

Tagata Fa'atau: Ozgun Kilic Afsar

Manumalo o le A' Design Award Apamemea i le Vaega Ie

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Le Mamanu

E Uiga ia OmniFiber Ie Fesuisuia'i Lagona-a-le-Tino

O le OmniFiber o se tekonolosi alava microfluidic mo ie ma lavalava fa'arobotike. E lagonaina e le alava lona lava fa'aselesele ma tali fa'amekanika i ai. O le OmniFiber e fa'apu'upu'u, fa'aloaloa, punou ma ta'amilo ma le tali vave, fua maualuga o le fa'apu'upu'uga ma le maualuga o le mana e maua mai ai. E mafai ona lāitiiti se alava e tasi e pei o le 500 microns ma e mafai ona lapo'a e oo atu i le 2 milimita le lautele, ma e mafai ona lalaga pe fau fa'apea i totonu o le ie. O se mataitusi fa'atonu ofuina e fesuiai le mamafa o le ea ma le saoasaoa o le tafe e fa'atulaga ai le gaioiga. O fa'aogaga e aofia ai mea ofuina e iloa ai le gaioiga o le tino, ofu fetuutuunai fa'apitoa, ma masini pa'i fa'avae i ie.

Le Fa'ailogaina

E Uiga i le A' Design Award Apamemea

O le A' Design Award Apamemea na manumalo ai OmniFiber Ie Fesuisuia'i Lagona-a-le-Tino, o se faamaoniga matuā mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu ese e iloga i le fatufatuaʻi, le atamai ma le poto. O ē manumalo i le Apamemea o mea e iai le tomai atoa ma fatufatuaʻi mataʻina e faamaonia ai le poto masani tele, le mafaufau ma le atamai o tagata mamanu. E faamoemoeina OmniFiber Ie Fesuisuia'i Lagona-a-le-Tino e avea ma mea e vivii tele, ua pelepelea, e iloga i le tomai faapolofesa ma mea fou. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Apamemea e tuufaatasia ai faiga sili i le faatufugaga, saienisi, mamanu ma tekonolosi ma e sili ona lelei i le mataituina o mea itiiti. OmniFiber Ie Fesuisuia'i Lagona-a-le-Tino e faamalieina matagofie manaʻoga, pa i manaʻo, faalataina lagona ma faaosofia le fia iloa.

I Tua o le Mamanu

Pepa Fa'asalalau

Fa'amaoniaga, sui o le 'au ma fa'amatalaga fa'atekinisi na saunia e le tagata mamanu.

Uiga Fa'apitoa: OmniFiber is a high-pressure microfluidic fiber technology for robotic textiles and garments. The fiber is engineered to sense its own physical deformation and mechanically respond to it. OmniFiber has versatile morphing behavior such as contracting, extending, bending and coiling with immediate response, high contraction ratio and high force output. This allows a myriad of applications including kinesthetic wearables for skill learning and transfer, dynamic fitting garments, and textile-based haptic devices for telepresence applications.
Fua & Fa'apipi'i: A single OmniFiber device can be as thin as 500 microns and as large as 2 millimeters in diameter. They can be fabricated theoretically at infinite lengths, although we have so far achieved a continuous fabrication of a 60 meters-long fiber spool.
A single contractible fiber of 1.8 mm diameter exhibits forces up to 19 Newtons, demonstrating high speeds of linear actuation with as little as 5 milliseconds response time for full-state morphing.
Fa'ailoga: Interaction Design, Materials Research, Human-Textile Interaction, Morphing User Interfaces, Haptic Devices, Soft Sensors and Actuators, Microfluidics, Intelligent Textiles, Fibers
Tekonolosi Gaosiga: This work demonstrates that microfluidic actuation with reinforced tubular elastomers can be leveraged for fluidic morphing matter that acts as a fiber in a fabric assembly. The technology is designed for closed loop Human Textile Interaction by applying localized sensor nodes on the fiber body. A mechanical programming pipeline is developed for versatile morphing states by adding on-demand mechanical constraints. With various assemblies made of OmniFibers, in-fabric haptic feedback is achieved including high frequency oscillations, lateral skin stretch, and compression.
Lu'itau o le Mamanu: Recently, there have been remarkable advancements that yield a myriad of engineered fibers, however prior work has often focused on achieving either sensing or actuation, but seldom both. Readily employed fibers such as shape memory alloys have limitations that hinder their integration to everyday interactions. These are high cost, slow response, small forces, arduous training, and risk of burning the skin. To overcome these challenges, we established a fiber technology that uses off-the-shelf materials, is scalable, machine-knittable, safe to wear, and has immediate response.
Su'esu'ega: Advances in materials science invite visions of a world where people interact with machines through garments. OmniFiber presents a novel textile technology where actuated fibers are used to make self-sensing robotic fabrics. The fabrication and comprehensive system design provide designers with an accessible way to knit and weave fluidic morphing swatches. OmniFiber operates with low power, high bandwidth and is strong enough to lift kilograms of weight, making it an ideal technology for kinesthetic wearables such as respiratory regulation-wear, soft exoskeletons for dance pedagogy, and peristaltic compression garments.
Fa'aosofia: Textiles are vital to our survival across scales, from medical textiles that repair our organs to blankets that provide warmth and protection. Although the development of textiles is intertwined with that of human progress, they are still valued as static and disposable goods. Advanced fibers have the potential to create a whole new industry where textiles can sense surroundings; store energy; and communicate in a single package. This will increase the value of textiles to society, transforming them from something we buy, use and throw away, to a platform for experiences and services.
Umi o le Poloketi: Started in April 2020 at MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts and ended in November 2021. The work has been presented and demonstrated at the ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium in October 2021.
Fa'agasologa o Galuega: The system design consists of a fiber based interface and a wearable pneumatic control module that together convert energy from a compressed fluid medium to mechanical motion. The fiber behavior is programmed by miniaturized valves in the control module that vary air pressure and flow rate, operated through a graphical interface. The users can interact with OmniFiber based devices leveraging the closed loop strain control functionality for real time, and record-playback interactions, or alternatively design morphing behavior using the event scheduler on the graphical interface.
Pateni: Provisional Patent. Patent No. 63/276895. Joint, Media Laboratory. 2021.

https://patents.media.mit.edu/23866TJ
Sui o le 'Au: Ozgun Kilic Afsar
Ali Shtarbanov
Hiroshi Ishii
Fa'aaloaloga o Ata: All Photo credits to Ozgun Kilic Afsar, 2021.
All Video credits to MIT, 2021.