Silicone made contractile dielectric elastomer actuators inside 3-Tesla MRI environment

2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 137-142

  Carpi, Federico ^a   Khanicheh, Azadeh ^b   Mavroidis, Constantinos ^b   De Rossi, Danilo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Actuator; Contractile; Dielectric elastomer; Electroactive polymer; Folded; MRI compatibility; MRI compatible; Silicone

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTILE; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER; ELECTROACTIVE POLYMER; FOLDED; MRI COMPATIBILITY; MRI-COMPATIBLE;

ACTUATORS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MECHATRONICS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PLASTICS; POLYMERS; RUBBER; SILICONES;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS;

EID: 69549111152     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2008.4651064     Document Type: Conference Paper

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