Multi-functional dielectric elastomer artificial muscles for soft and smart machines
By Iain A. Anderson, T. Gisby, Thomas McKay, Benjamin M. O’Brien, Emilio P. Calius. 2012
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Dielectric elastomer (DE) actuators are popularly referred to as artificial muscles because their impressive actuation strain and speed, low density, compliant nature, and silent operation capture many of the desirable physical properties of muscle. Unlike conventional robots and machines, whose mechanisms and drive systems rapidly become very complex as the number of degrees of freedom increases, groups of DE artificial muscles have the potential to generate rich motions combining many translational and rotational degrees of freedom. These artificial muscle systems can mimic the agonist-antagonist approach found in nature, so that active expansion of one artificial muscle is taken up by passive contraction in the other. They can also vary their stiffness. In addition, they have the ability to produce electricity from movement. But departing from the high stiffness paradigm of electromagnetic motors and gearboxes leads to new control challenges, and for soft machines to be truly dexterous like their biolo...
Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry
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- Soft Manipulators and Grippers: A Review (2016, background): “These can be used for highly soft actuators (Anderson et al., 2012) which have the advantages of impressive actuation strain and speed, low density, high compliance and silent operation.”
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