A Dielectric Elastomer Actuator-Driven Vibro-Impact Crawling Robot
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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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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Highly Stretchable Sound‐in‐Display Electronics Based on Strain‐Insensitive Metallic Nanonetworks
Advanced Science, 2021 The growing importance of human–machine interfaces and the rapid expansion of the internet of things (IoT) have inspired the integration of displays with sound generation systems to afford stretchable sound‐in‐display devices and thus establish human‐to ...
Seungse Cho +6 more
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Dielectric elastomer artificial muscle materials advancement and soft robotic applications
SmartMat, 2023 Conventional robotic systems are built with rigid materials to deal with large forces and predetermined processes. Soft robotics, however, is an emerging field seeking to develop adaptable robots that can perform tasks in unpredictable environments and ...
Yuxuan Guo +5 more
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Iterative Learning Control for Motion Trajectory Tracking of a Circular Soft Crawling Robot
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2019 Soft robots have recently received much attention with their infinite degrees of freedoms and continuously deformable structures, which allow them to adapt well to the unstructured environment.
Haozhen Chi +4 more
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A novel soft cardiac assist device based on a dielectric elastomer augmented aorta: An in vivo study
Bioengineering & Translational Medicine, 2023 Although heart transplant is the preferred solution for patients suffering from heart failures, cardiac assist devices remain key substitute therapies.
Thomas Martinez +13 more
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Sparse Bayesian Nonlinear System Identification using Variational Inference [PDF]
, 2018 IEEE Bayesian nonlinear system identification for one of the major classes of dynamic model, the nonlinear autoregressive with exogenous input (NARX) model, has not been widely studied to date. Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods have been developed,
Anderson, S.R. +3 more
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is defined as brain damage due to an external force that negatively impacts brain function. Up to 90% of all TBI are considered in the mild severity range (mTBI) but there is still no therapeutic solution available. Therefore,
Yi-Han Wu +11 more
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Flexible and stretchable electrodes for dielectric elastomer actuators [PDF]
, 2018 Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are flexible lightweight actuators that can generate strains of over 100%. They are used in applications ranging from haptic feedback (mm-sized devices), to cm-scale soft robots, to meter-long blimps. DEAs consist of
Rosset, Samuel, Shea, Herbert
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Intrinsic tuning of poly (styrene-butadiene-styrene) (SBS) based self-healing dielectric elastomer actuators with enhanced electromechanical properties [PDF]
, 2018 The electromechanical properties of a thermoplastic styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS) dielectric elastomer was intrinsically tuned by chemical grafting with polar organic groups.
Bowen, Chris R. +6 more
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