A Dielectric Elastomer Actuator-Driven Vibro-Impact Crawling Robot [PDF]
Micromachines, 2022 Over the last decade, many bio-inspired crawling robots have been proposed by adopting the principle of two-anchor crawling or anisotropic friction-based vibrational crawling.
Chuang Wu +3 more
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Cell Nanomechanics Based on Dielectric Elastomer Actuator Device [PDF]
Nano-Micro Letters, 2019 As a frontier of biology, mechanobiology plays an important role in tissue and biomedical engineering. It is a common sense that mechanical cues under extracellular microenvironment affect a lot in regulating the behaviors of cells such as proliferation ...
Zhichao Li +6 more
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Photothermal modulated dielectric elastomer actuator for resilient soft robots [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2022 Tough and healable elastomers are promising materials to realize resilient soft robots but mechanical enhancements often lead to higher stiffness that deteriorates actuation strains.
Matthew Wei Ming Tan +4 more
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A Review of Cooperative Actuator and Sensor Systems Based on Dielectric Elastomer Transducers
Actuators, 2023 This paper presents an overview of cooperative actuator and sensor systems based on dielectric elastomer (DE) transducers. A DE consists of a flexible capacitor made of a thin layer of soft dielectric material (e.g., acrylic, silicone) surrounded with a ...
Gianluca Rizzello
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Flexible Vibrotactile Actuator Based on Dielectric Elastomer for Smart Handheld Devices
Applied Sciences, 2021 This paper presents an electroactive and soft vibrotactile actuator based on a dielectric elastomer. The vibrotactile actuator is composed of an upper layer, an adhesive tape layer, a dielectric layer with bumps, and a lower layer.
Yong Hae Heo +3 more
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A Jumping Robot Driven by a Dielectric Elastomer Actuator
Applied Sciences, 2020 Dielectric elastomer (DE) is a soft material that can deform to a large degree under the action of an electric field. In this paper, multilayer DE films were stacked in parallel to prepare a 20-layer dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA).
Bin Luo +7 more
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Modeling of a Dielectric Elastomer Bender Actuator
Actuators, 2014 The current smallest self-contained modular robot uses a shape memory alloy, which is inherently inefficient, slow and difficult to control. We present the design, fabrication and demonstration of a module based on dielectric elastomer actuation.
Paul White, Stella Latscha, Mark Yim
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Dynamic modeling of dielectric elastomer actuator with conical shape. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 With desirable physical performances of impressive actuation strain, high energy density, high degree of electromechanical coupling and high mechanical compliance, dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are widely employed to actuate the soft robots ...
Peng Huang, Wenjun Ye, Yawu Wang
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Styrenic-Rubber Dielectric Elastomer Actuator with Inherent Stiffness Compensation
Actuators, 2020 Up to date, Dielectric Elastomer Actuators (DEA) have been mostly based on either silicone or acrylic elastomers, whereas the potential of DEAs based on inexpensive, wide-spread natural and synthetic rubbers has been scarcely investigated. In this paper,
Giacomo Moretti +5 more
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Performance Optimization of a Conical Dielectric Elastomer Actuator [PDF]
Actuators, 2018 Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are known as ‘artificial muscles’ due to their large actuation strain, high energy density and self-sensing capability.
Chongjing Cao, Andrew T. Conn
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