Buckling dielectric elastomer actuators and their use as motors for the eyeballs of an android face

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6168, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Carpi, F ^a   Fantoni, G ^a   Guerrini, P ^a   De Rossi, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Actuator; Artificial vision; Dielectric elastomer; Electroactive polymer; Eyeball

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BUCKLING; COMPUTER VISION; DIAPHRAGMS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELASTOMERS; POLYMERS; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER; ELECTROACTIVE POLYMER; EYEBALL; PSEUDO-MUSCULAR ACTUATORS;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 33745829411     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.655254     Document Type: Conference Paper

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