Recruited dielectric elastomer motor units as a pseudomuscular actuator

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5051, Issue , 2003, Pages 464-467

  Lorussi, F ^a   Tognetti, A ^a   Carpi, F ^a   Mazzoldi, A ^a   De Rossi, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Actuators; Control; Dielectric elastomer; Pseudomuscular actuator; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ALGORITHMS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELASTICITY; KINEMATICS; MUSCLE; NEUROLOGY; SYNTHETIC FIBERS;

FORCE LAWS; PSEUDOMUSCULAR ACTUATORS;

ELASTOMERS;

EID: 0242441929     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.484323     Document Type: Conference Paper

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