A Review of Cooperative Actuator and Sensor Systems Based on Dielectric Elastomer Transducers [PDF]
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 ...
Rizzello, Gianluca
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A Portable Real-Time Test Bench for Dielectric Elastomer Actuators [PDF]
Machines, 2023 Recently, a significant amount of research has been devoted to soft robots. Artificial muscles belong to the most important components of soft robots. Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) represent the technology that comes closest to the capabilities
Bhatta, Sushil +3 more
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Development of an Oblique Cone Dielectric Elastomer Actuator Module-Connected Vertebrate Fish Robot. [PDF]
Biomimetics (Basel)As a soft actuator for fish robots, an oblique cone dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) module inspired by the structure of white muscles in fish was proposed in the authors’ previous study.
Hitomi T, Sato R, Ming A.
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Performance-Optimized Dielectric Elastomer Actuator System with Scalable Scissor Linkage Transmission [PDF]
Actuators, 2022 Thanks to their outstanding properties, in the last few years Dielectric Elastomer Actuators (DEAs) have increasingly attracted the interest of the scientific community and generated a surge in the effort devoted to their industrialization. Compared to
Bruch, Daniel +3 more
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Influence of Active-to-Passive Ratio on the Deformation in Circular Dielectric Elastomer Actuators. [PDF]
Micromachines (Basel)To further improve the performance of dielectric elastomer actuaotrs (DEAs), the development of novel elastomers with enhanced electro-mechanical properties is focal for the advancement of the technology.
Koenigsdorff M +4 more
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Functional soft robotic composites based on organic photovoltaic and dielectric elastomer actuator. [PDF]
Sci RepImproving the energy efficiency of robots remains a crucial challenge in soft robotics, with energy harvesting emerging as a promising approach to address it.
Abolhosen AMR +5 more
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A tunable acoustic absorber using reconfigurable dielectric elastomer actuated petals [PDF]
Commun EngDielectric elastomer actuator (DEA)-based unimorphs that actively bend in one direction, can mimic the blooming motion of flower petals. Here we explore an application of such reconfigurable DEA to create tunable acoustic absorber capable of adapting to ...
Shrestha M +5 more
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Actuators, 2021 Soft actuators are compliant material-based devices capable of producing large deformation upon external stimuli. Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEA) are a type of soft actuator that operates on voltage stimuli. Apart from soft robotics, these actuators
Milan Shrestha +3 more
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Research on control of dielectric elastomer actuator based on BAS-PID algorithm
Xi'an Gongcheng Daxue xuebao, 2021 Because the actuator composed of the dielectric elastomer has a viscoelastic effect during the driving process of the soft robot, which makes it difficult to accurately control the robot, a kind of beetle antennae search(BAS) algorithm optimization PID ...
Jian XU, Nan XI, Zebin SU
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Dielectric elastomer actuators based on stretchable and self-healable hydrogel electrodes [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) based on dielectric elastomer holds promising applications in soft robotics. Compliant electrodes with large stretchability and high electrical conductivity are the vital components for the DEAs.
Yang Gao +5 more
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