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Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2020 The inherent compliance of soft robots often makes it difficult for them to exert forces on surrounding surfaces or withstand mechanical loading. Controlled stiffness is a solution to empower soft robots with the ability to apply large forces on their ...
Yegor Piskarev +5 more
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Acoustical transducer calibrating system and apparatus [PDF]
, 1973 An acoustical transducer calibrating system includes a differential pressure actuating device having an inner chamber for applying differential pressures to the transducer, and an outer chamber for vacuum sealing.
Cohn, R. B., Lewis, T. L.
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Meta‐Rod Mechanical Metamaterials With Programmable Reconfiguration
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Existing mechanical metamaterials achieve programmable large deformations in planar square or cubic configurations, restricted by required complex boundary conditions. This research proposes a 1D metamaterial, Meta‐rod, with linear, bending, twisting, area, and volume deformation modes.
Atharva Pande, Lyes Kadem, Hang Xu
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Output Force Density Saturation in COMSOL Simulations of Biomimetic Artificial Muscles
Applied Sciences, 2023 Many modern applications, such as undersea drones, exoskeletal suits, all-terrain walker drones, prosthetics, and medical augments, would greatly benefit from artificial muscles.
Michelangelo A. Coltelli +5 more
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From Food to Power: Hydrogel Thermoelectrics for Ingestible Electronics
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.We introduce a fully edible thermoelectric–electrochromic platform that harvests heat from food and converts it into a visible color change. N‐type and p‐type hydrogel thermoelectric generators connected in series power anthocyanin‐based electrochromic displays, demonstrating the feasibility of safe, biodegradable, ingestible systems for on‐food ...
Antonia Georgopoulou +3 more
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Proceedings, 2018 An electrostatic membrane actuator with an elastomer membrane as movable part and silver nanowires (AgNWs) as flexible electrode material is built and characterized.
Stefan Schierle +3 more
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MEMS practice, from the lab to the telescope
, 2012 Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology can provide for deformable mirrors (DMs) with excellent performance within a favorable economy of scale.
Cornelissen, Steven +10 more
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Self-Sensing Control for Soft-Material Actuators Based on Dielectric Elastomers [PDF]
, 2019 Due to their energy density and softness that are comparable to human muscles dielectric elastomer (DE) transducers are well-suited for soft-robotic applications. This kind of transducer combines actuator and sensor functionality within one transducer so
Hoffstadt, Thorben, Maas, Jürgen
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Electrostatic actuation of silicon optomechanical resonators
Optics Express, 2011 Optomechanical systems offer one of the most sensitive methods for detecting mechanical motion using shifts in the optical resonance frequency of the optomechanical resonator . Presently, these systems are used for measuring mechanical thermal noise displacement or mechanical motion actuated by optical forces.
Sridaran, Suresh, Bhave, Sunil A.
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4D‐Printed Magneto‐Plasmonic Microrobots for Programmable Spatiotemporal De‐Icing
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A 4D‐printing strategy is introduced to achieve programmable de‐icing devices. By aligning gold–magnetite nanofillers within a photosensitive resin, the printed structures exhibit dual magnetic and plasmonic functionalities, enabling precise spatio‐temporal ice removal through thermoplasmonic effects.
Amélie Pérot +7 more
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