The dielectric elastomer actuator
Development of a Refreshable Prototype Actuator using Silicone Dielectric Elastomer Actuator (DEA).
... A refreshable Braille cell prototype has been developed based on silicone tubular dielectric elastomer actuator. A refreshable Braille cell consists of series of dots (made up of small metals or ...
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Evaluation of the deformation shape of a balloon type dielectric elastomer actuator prestretched with water pressure
... Keywords: Soft actuator, Dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA), Structural mechanics © The Author(s) 2021. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International ...
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Productization of a new type of dielectric elastomer actuator
... decreased dielectric constant of the dielectrics, decreases the ...are dielectric constant of the dielectric material, dielectric constant of the surrounding environment which is air in this ...
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Miniaturized Dielectric Elastomer Actuator for Mechanical Stimulation of Monolayer Cell Cultures
... 6.3. Materials and methods 6.3.2 Mechanical stimulation of LECs After reaching a confluent cell monolayer, the device was mounted on an inverted microscope as presented in Fig.6.2. A portable incubator was used to control ...
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Electrical and mechanical self-healing in high-performance dielectric elastomer actuator materials
... (MGSBS) dielectric elastomer has been successfully used to provide the first demonstration of self-healing of both electrical breakdown and mechanical damage in dielectric ...after dielectric ...
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Giant continuously-tunable actuation of a dielectric elastomer ring actuator
... polymer actuator, much like the human muscle. Here, we demonstrate a dielectric elastomer actuator in a ring configuration, exhibiting electrically-induced linear strains in excess of ...ring ...
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Maximizing strain in miniaturized dielectric elastomer actuators
... miniaturized dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA), a configuration found for example in AMI’s haptic feedback devices, or in our tuneable RF phase ...passive elastomer membrane, thereby ...
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Model and design of dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures
... prestretched dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) on a flexible frame allows transformation of the intrinsic in-plane area expansion of DEAs into complex three-dimensional (3D) structures whose shape ...
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Effect of material viscoelasticity on frequency tuning of dielectric elastomer membrane resonators
... a dielectric elastomer actuator A typical DE membrane actuator is schematically illustrated in ...the dielectric body is polarized by the induced electric field and the elastomer ...
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Frequency dependent dielectric and mechanical behaviour of elastomers for actuator applications
... A dielectric elastomer actuator 共DEA兲 consists of an elastomer film coated on either side with compliant elec- ...the elastomer film is given ...
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Large Deformable Soft Actuators Using Dielectric Elastomer and Origami Inspired Structures
... Institution: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Year: 2019 There have been significant developments in the field of robotics. Significant development consists of new configurations, control mechanisms, and actuators ...
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Cerebellar inspired algorithm for adaptive control of nonlinear dielectric elastomer based artificial muscle
... PD, 0000-0003-3257-620X Electroactive polymer actuators are important for soft robotics, but can be dif- ficult to control because of compliance, creep and nonlinearities. Because biological control mechanisms have ...
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Effective behavior of dielectric elastomer composites
... Abstract The class of electroactive polymers has been developed to a point where real life applications as “artificial muscles” are conceivable. These actuator materials provide attractive advantages: they are ...
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High-Performance Dielectric Elastomer Actuators
... interesting from a customer point of view. The actuator system is able to drive all loads, which fit into the work area of the actuator system. 3.5 Conclusion Chapter 3 studies the main factors that ...
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Highly Anisotropic Dielectric Elastomer Composites.
... D-EAP actuator electrodes rather than ...with elastomer without generating any opposing stress without loss of ...the dielectric layer, ability to be patterned with high resolution, good adhesion to ...
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Electromechanical coupling behavior of dielectric elastomer transducers
... (3) Investigating the energy harvesting performance of dissipative DEs and developing possible approaches to improve the energy harvesting efficiency of DE-based generators. 1.5 Thesis Structure Following the general ...
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Soft dielectric elastomer oscillators driving bioinspired robots
... 5 V S to the oscillator, a self-primed oscillation, with three phase shifted voltages dropping over the individual inverters, is generated. The phase shift between the voltage signals is φ=120°. After a settling time the ...
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Improved electromechanical behavior in castable dielectric elastomer actuators
... In conclusion, we demonstrated that the existing theoret- ical guidelines for large actuation strains based on VHB films cannot be directly implemented for castable elastomers. Since they can be casted at any thickness, ...
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Effects of plasticization of a soft silicone for dielectric elastomer actuation
... an elastomer is the use of ...the elastomer is important, especially to actuator ...The elastomer was used in the past, both ‘as it is’, to demonstrate new DE actuators, such as helical [11], ...
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Development of Dielectric Elastomer based Prototype Fiber Actuators
... as actuator material has been an area of research for quite some time ...called dielectric elastomers, and the actuators built using these are known as dielectric elastomer actuators or ...
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