Arm wrestling robot driven by dielectric elastomer actuators

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6168, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kovacs, Gabor ^a   Lochmatter, Patrick ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Artificial muscles; Electroactive polymers (EAP); Robotics

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MATERIALS TESTING; ROBOTICS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER ACTUATORS; ELECTRICAL ACTIVATION; ELECTROACTIVE POLYMERS (EAP);

ELASTOMERS;

EID: 33745852246     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.658602     Document Type: Conference Paper

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