Applications of dielectric elastomer actuators

By Ron Pelrine, P. Sommer-Larsen, Roy Kornbluh, Richard Heydt, G. Kofod, Qibing Pei, P. Gravesen. SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2001

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Large-scale failure modes of dielectric elastomer actuators (2006, background): “The majority of DEA designs are variants of what can be called rolled and planar classes, see Pelrine et al. (2001), Kornbluh et al. (2002), Wingert et al. (2002a,b), Pei et al. (2004), and Plante et al. (2005).”
Progress on ‘pico’ air vehicles (2012, background): “…of relatively simple geometries for producing linear actuation from electrostatic forces (Tang et al., 1990), clever piezoelectric linear motors,13 piezoelectric stacks and ‘moonie’-type actuators (Newnham et al., 1993), and many dielectric elastomer configurations (Pelrine et al., 2001).”
Modeling and simulation of dielectric elastomer actuators (2005, background): “Examples of applications [2, 3] of dielectric elastomers as actuators include mobile mini- and microrobots, micropumps and microvalves, micro air vehicles, disk drives, prosthetic devices and flat panel loudspeakers.”