Actuator design using Electroactive Polymers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5836, Issue , 2005, Pages 128-137

  Fernández, Diego ^a   Moreno, Luis ^b   Baselga, Juan ^b  

^a AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Actuator; Artificial muscles; Biomimetic; EAP; EAP actuator design

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; HYDRAULICS; MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSCLE; OPTIMIZATION;

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; BIOMIMETIC; EAP; EAP ACTUATOR DESIGN;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 28344437090     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.608525     Document Type: Conference Paper

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