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Advances in Electroactive Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Intelligent Robotics and Electronics
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Electroactive liquid crystal elastomers (eLCEs) integrate molecular anisotropy with electrical functionality to enable programmable actuation and reconfigurable electronics. This review classifies eLCEs into robotic actuators and adaptive electronics, summarizes key actuation mechanisms, and highlights fabrication strategies that bridge materials to ...
Kavita Ramesh Rathod +14 more
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Micromachines, 2016 Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEA) are special devices which have a simple working and construction principle and outstanding actuation properties. The DEAs consist of a combination of different materials for the dielectric and electrode layers.
Tilo Köckritz +7 more
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Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.This article implements a unified human digital twin framework that integrates cutting edge actuation, sensing, simulation, and bidirectional feedback capability. The approach includes integrating multimodal sensing, AI, and biomechanical simulation into one compact system.
Tajbeed Ahmed Chowdhury +4 more
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Soft Capacitors for Wave Energy Harvesting
, 2011 Wave energy harvesting could be a substantial renewable energy source without impact on the global climate and ecology, yet practical attempts have struggle d with problems of wear and catastrophic failure.
Abel, Markus +4 more
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.This article reviews the current state of bioinspired soft robotics. The article discusses soft actuators, soft sensors, materials selection, and control methods used in bioinspired soft robotics. It also highlights the challenges and future prospects of this field.
Abhirup Sarker +2 more
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Characteristics of dielectric elastomers and fabrication of dielectric elastomer actuators for artificial muscle applications [PDF]
, 2011 Electroactive polymers have been studied for artificial muscle applications in last decades. One of the EAP materials, 3M VHB acrylic tapes, have shown been outstanding electro-mechanical coupling performance. The scope of this study is to understand the
Lai, William
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.A data‐efficient artificial intelligence‐assisted framework, which integrates experimental data with machine learning, is developed for the design of bimodal networked dielectric elastomers (DEs) as advanced artificial muscles. It adopts neural networks to predict DEs’ mechanical properties and support vector machines to classify electromechanical ...
Ofoq Normahmedov +8 more
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Scalable High‐Force Zipping Electrostatic Actuators
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.An electrostatic actuator architecture is presented that combines high energy density with forces and strokes suited for wearable soft robotics. By folding patterned thin films into a scalable honeycomb of zipping units, performance becomes tunable through series–parallel design, achieving over 40 N and 28 J/kg.
Fabio Caruso +2 more
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Advanced Design Concepts and Efficient Finite Element Modeling for Dielectric Elastomer Devices [PDF]
, 2019 Dielectric elastomers (DEs) offer their use in numerous applications, due to their advantages compared to conventional actuators and sensors. They excel in properties such as lightweight, energy efficiency, low-noise and inherent compliance, just to name
Loew, Philipp
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Power optimization of a conical dielectric elastomer actuator for resonant robotic systems [PDF]
, 2020 Insects utilize resonant actuation to amplify the flapping stroke and improve the energy efficiency. The inherent elasticity in dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) offers the advantage over conventional actuators of achieving resonant actuation with no
Burgess, Stuart C +3 more
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