Dielectric elastomer artificial muscle actuators: Toward biomimetic motion

Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4695, Issue , 2002, Pages 126-137

  Pelrine, Ron ^a   Kornbluh, Roy ^a   Pei, Qibing ^a   Stanford, Scott ^a   Oh, Seajin ^a   Eckerle, Joe ^a   Full, Robert ^b   Rosentha, Marcus ^b   Meijer, Kenneth ^c  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Artificial muscle; Biomimetic; Dielectric elastomers; Electroctive polymers; Robots; Walking

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; DAMPING; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELASTOMERS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROSTRICTION; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; STIFFNESS; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS;

ELECTROACTIVE POLYMERS;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 0036031020     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.475157     Document Type: Article

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