Fully Polymeric Domes as High-Stroke Biasing System for Soft Dielectric Elastomer Actuators. [PDF]
Front Robot AI, 2021 Neu J +5 more
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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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An approach to validate the design and fabrication of dielectric elastomer tactile sensor
, 2019 We present an approach for evaluating the design of Dielectric Elastomer (DE) capacitive pressure sensors on robotic graspers. This approach has used the ANSYS software for Finite Element Method (FEM), along with a MatLab script for calculation of ...
Zhu, Yuting +5 more
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A Low‐Cost, Handheld Optical Stiffness Sensor for Minimally Invasive Surgery
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.A novel handheld stiffness sensor is presented for real‐time tissue stiffness characterization. By simultaneously sensing contact force and tissue deformation, the device enables accurate stiffness quantification without requiring precise manual control. This approach offers a promising solution for intraoperative tumor detection and minimally invasive
Qianyu Ma +4 more
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Lowering the voltage of dielectric elastomer actuators (DEA) for wearables
, 2022 Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) often require the use of high voltage for its operation. In the application of DEAs for wearables, it is important to avoid the use of high voltage for safety purposes.
Lee, Jia Hui
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Dielectric Elastomer Actuators, Neuromuscular Interfaces, and Foreign Body Response in Artificial Neuromuscular Prostheses: A Review of the Literature for an In Vivo Application. [PDF]
Adv Healthc Mater, 2021 Bruschi A +4 more
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Low voltage fast dielectric elastomer actuators
, 2019 Cette thèse contribue à l’avancement du domaine des actionneurs souples diélectrique (DEAs). Les DEA sont des actionneurs souples actionnés électrostatiquement, ils sont rapides et capables de fournir une déformation d’actionnement, une force et une densité de puissance élevées. Différentes applications ont été développées à partir des DEAs, telles que:
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Fiber‐Format Dielectric Elastomer Actuators by the Meter
Advanced Functional MaterialsAbstractDielectric elastomers in the shape of thin films are heavily investigated, but they do not produce beneficial strains and forces comparable to that of skeletal muscles without entailing extremely complicated fabrication processes, rendering their practical use limited.
Zhaoqing Kang +5 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.The pholidota‐inspired electronic skin is successfully constructed, originally realized four‐state reversible switching of terahertz‐wave reflection, absorption, transmission, and secondary reflection. In response to external demands, it issues deformation instructions, verifies the deformation state after the equipment executes the action, and thus ...
Shangjing Li +4 more
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Self-organized minimum-energy structures for dielectric elastomer actuators
, 2006 When a stretched elastomer is laminated to a flat plastic frame, a complex shape is formed, which is termed a minimum-energy structure. It is shown how self-organized structures can be applied in the development of actuators with complex, out-of-plane ...
Bauer, Siegfried +2 more
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