Wound roll dielectric elastomer actuators: Fabrication, analysis and experiments

2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1520-1525

  Rajamani, A ^a   Grissom, M ^a   Rahn, C ^a   Ma, Y ^a   Zhang, Q ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELASTOMERS; ELECTROACTIVE POLYMER ACTUATORS; FABRICATION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

ACTUATOR DISPLACEMENT; AXISYMMETRIC FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; COMPRESSIVE RADIAL STRESS; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER ACTUATORS; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS; FABRICATION PROCESS; NON-LINEAR MODEL; PROSTHETIC DEVICES;

ELECTROSTATIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 62449095644     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2005.1545366     Document Type: Conference Paper

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