Soft Robotic Tongue Mimicking English Pronunciation Movements 2 Report: Fabrication and Experimental Evaluation

Evan Krisdityawan, Sho Yokota, Akihiro Matsumoto, Daisuke Chugo, Satoshi Muramatsu, Hiroshi Hashimoto

2023

Abstract

A novel soft robotic tongue mimicking the movements of English pronunciation was proposed, aiming at the learning support for English pronunciation. A soft robotic tongue’s system design and actuator arrangements have been proposed, and the Finite Element Methods (FEM) simulation for each deformation has been conducted. In this paper, we discussed two milestones: fabrication and experimental evaluation. The fabrication, molding, and casting method was applied to the model, and it was manufactured five times bigger than the original size of a human tongue. A silicone rubber Ecoflex 00-30 was utilized and poured into the mold that was preliminary printed with a 3D printer. Moreover, an experiment was conducted to confirm and evaluate the deformation patterns of English pronunciation movements. A ruler was used to measure the parameters in each deformation, such as bend and flap angle, and bulge height. It presented that bend and bulge deformations between the fabricated soft robotic tongue and simulated FEM results were likely the same; however, the flap deformation slightly differed in the experimental evaluation.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Krisdityawan E., Yokota S., Matsumoto A., Chugo D., Muramatsu S. and Hashimoto H. (2023). Soft Robotic Tongue Mimicking English Pronunciation Movements 2 Report: Fabrication and Experimental Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO; ISBN 978-989-758-670-5, SciTePress, pages 704-710. DOI: 10.5220/0012207800003543

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco23,
author={Evan Krisdityawan and Sho Yokota and Akihiro Matsumoto and Daisuke Chugo and Satoshi Muramatsu and Hiroshi Hashimoto},
title={Soft Robotic Tongue Mimicking English Pronunciation Movements 2 Report: Fabrication and Experimental Evaluation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO},
year={2023},
pages={704-710},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012207800003543},
isbn={978-989-758-670-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO
TI - Soft Robotic Tongue Mimicking English Pronunciation Movements 2 Report: Fabrication and Experimental Evaluation
SN - 978-989-758-670-5
AU - Krisdityawan E.
AU - Yokota S.
AU - Matsumoto A.
AU - Chugo D.
AU - Muramatsu S.
AU - Hashimoto H.
PY - 2023
SP - 704
EP - 710
DO - 10.5220/0012207800003543
PB - SciTePress