Multifunctional electroelastomer rolls and their application for biomimetic walking robots

Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4698, Issue , 2002, Pages 246-253

  Pei, Qibing ^a   Pelrine, Ron ^a   Stanford, Scott ^a   Kornbluh, Roy ^a   Rosenthal, Marcus ^a,b   Meijer, Kenneth ^b,c   Full, Robert ^b  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dielectric elastomer actuator; Multifunctional electroelastomer; Six legged robot, artificial muscles; Strain sensor

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; COMPRESSION TESTING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ROBOTICS; STRAIN; TENSILE TESTING;

WALKING ROBOTS;

ELASTOMERS;

EID: 0036029214     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.475071     Document Type: Article

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