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Dynamic Current Routing in Conductive Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Complex Deformation Actuators
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.This work introduces a novel actuation control strategy in which electrical stimulation generates localized Joule heating in conductive liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) surfaces, enabling complex 3D deformations from a single homogeneous surface without preprogramming.
Gloria PouWai Lei +2 more
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Advances in artificial muscles: A brief literature and patent review
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2023 Background: Artificial muscles are an active research area now.Methods: A bibliometric analysis was performed to evaluate the development of artificial muscles based on research papers and patents.
Yuan Jing +4 more
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Degradation patterns of silicone-based dielectric elastomers in electrical fields [PDF]
, 2017 Silicone elastomers have been heavily investigated as candidates for the flexible insulator material in dielectric elastomer transducers and are as such almost ideal candidates because of their inherent softness and compliance.
Madsen, Frederikke Bahrt +2 more
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.A novel carbon fiber reinforcement for dielectric elastomer actuators enhances actuation force while decoupling electromechanical performance from the actuator's aspect ratio. Unlike conventional fiber reinforcements, it enables a uniform planar stretch state along the entire actuator.
Markus Koenigsdorff +8 more
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Artificial Eyes with Emotion and Light Responsive Pupils for Realistic Humanoid Robots
Informatics, 2021 This study employs a novel 3D engineered robotic eye system with dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) pupils and a 3D sculpted and colourised gelatin iris membrane to replicate the appearance and materiality of the human eye.
Carl Strathearn
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Multi‐Material Additive Manufacturing of Soft Robotic Systems: A Comprehensive Review
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This review explores the transformative role of multi‐material additive manufacturing (MMAM) in the development of soft robotic systems. It presents current techniques, materials, and design strategies that enable functionally graded and adaptive structures.
Ritik Raj +2 more
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Effects of Ferroelectric Fillers on Composite Dielectric Elastomer Actuator
Actuators, 2021 Integrating nano- to micro-sized dielectric fillers to elastomer matrices to form dielectric composites is one of the commonly utilized methods to improve the performance of dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs).
Stanislav Sikulskyi +4 more
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Dynamic Modeling of Soft Robotic Dielectric Elastomer Actuator [PDF]
, 2021 Dielectric elastomers actuators (DEAs) are among the preferred materials for developing lightweight, high compliance and energy efficient driven mechanisms for soft robots.
El Atrache Ceballos, Abdullah De Jesus
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Soft Actuators Integrated with Control and Power Units: Approaching Wireless Autonomous Soft Robots
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Soft robots exhibit significant development potential in various applications. However, there are still key technical challenges regarding material improvement, structure design and components integration. This review focuses on the development and challenge of soft actuators, power components, and control components in untethered intelligent soft ...
Renwu Shi, Feifei Pan, Xiaobin Ji
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Adhesion modulation In bio-inspired micropatterned adhesives by electrical fields [PDF]
, 2020 With steps towards Industry 4.0, it becomes imperative to the development of next-generation industrial assembly lines, to be able to modulate adhesion dynamically for handling complex and diverse substrates.
Chopra, Vaishali
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