High-Speed, Compact, Adaptive Lenses Using In-Line Transparent Dielectric Elastomer Actuator Membranes [PDF]
, 2013 Electrically tunable adaptive lenses provide several advantages over traditional lens assemblies in terms of compactness, speed, efficiency, and flexibility.
Clarke, David R. +2 more
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Materials and Textile Architecture Analyses for Mechanical Counter-Pressure Space Suits using Active Materials [PDF]
, 2012 Mechanical counter-pressure (MCP) space suits have the potential to improve the mobility of astronauts as they conduct planetary exploration activities.
Anadon J. +34 more
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Dielectric Elastomer Cooperative Microactuator Systems : DECMAS [PDF]
, 2023 This paper presents results of the first phase of “Dielectric Elastomer Cooperative Microactuator Systems” (DECMAS), a project within the German Research Foundation Priority Program 2206, “Cooperative Multistable Multistage Microactuator Systems” (KOMMMA)
Croce, Sipontina +5 more
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Control-focused, nonlinear and time-varying modelling of dielectric elastomer actuators with frequency response analysis [PDF]
, 2015 Current models of dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are mostly constrained to first principal descriptions that are not well suited to the application of control design due to their computational complexity.
Conn A T +14 more
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On the mechanical power output comparisons of cone dielectric elastomer actuators [PDF]
, 2021 The emerging demand for bio-inspired soft robotics requires novel soft actuators whose performance exceeds conventional rigid ones. Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are a promising soft actuation technology with large actuation strain and fast ...
Cao, Chongjing +9 more
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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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Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 2021 Herein, the prestretching indexes of dielectric elastomers (DE) were determined by measuring the tensile properties, and then the actuation displacement and output force of the conical dielectric elastomer actuator (CDEA) with different prestretching ...
Hong Wang +3 more
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4D printing inflatable silicone structures [PDF]
, 2016 This article details steps in creating low-power artificial muscles using 3D printing. It describes a manufacturing system that can be used to fabricate seamless tubular dielectric elastomer actuators (DEA), for eventual use in biorobotic devices.
Coulter, FB, Ianakiev, A
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Geometry-based customization of bending modalities for 3D-printed soft pneumatic actuators [PDF]
, 2018 In this work, we propose a novel type of 3D-printed soft pneumatic actuator that allows geometry-based customization of bending modalities. While motion in the 3D-space has been achieved for several types of soft actuators, only 2D-bending has been ...
Rosalia, Luca +2 more
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Toward a Dielectric Elastomer Resonator Driven Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2019 In the last two decades, insect-inspired flapping wing micro air vehicles (MAVs) have attracted great attention for their potential for highly agile flight. Insects flap their wings at the resonant frequencies of their flapping mechanisms.
Chongjing Cao +5 more
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