PRACTICE OF SOFT ROBOTICS AND INNOVATION EDUCATION

The course of practice can help cultivate students' skills of do-it-by-oneself and cooperation, and teach them the practical applications of theories. Recently the soft robotics becomes a nascent research field, which contains abundant mechanical principles. This paper explores an application of the soft robotics for teaching mechanics, including the methods of selecting subjects and organizing. As an implementation, in the soft robotics program of the 2019 aerospace technology science innovation and practice camp held by Tsinghua University, 14 undergraduate participants successfully developed 5 soft robots using different actuation mechanisms and locomotion gaits.