Biomimetic control for DEA arrays

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7642, Issue , 2010, Pages

  O'Brien, Benjamin ^a   Gisby, Todd ^a   Xie, Sheng Q ^b   Calius, Emilio ^c   Anderson, Iain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c CALLAGHAN INNOVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Array; Biomimetic; Dielectric elastomer actuator; Multi level control; Self sensing

Indexed keywords

APPLIED VOLTAGES; BALL ROLL; BIO-MIMETIC CONTROL; BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DERIVATIVE CONTROLLERS; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER ACTUATORS; DISTRIBUTED SENSING; LEVEL CONTROLLERS; MULTI-LEVEL; MULTI-LEVEL CONTROL; PERISTALTIC PUMP; SELF-SENSING; SET-POINT; SQUARE WAVES; STATE MACHINE; STEADY ROLLING; TEST APPLICATIONS; TEST ARRAYS;

ACTUATORS; BIOMIMETICS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; LEVEL CONTROL; PLASTICS; PROPULSION; PUMPS; RUBBER; SPEED; SPHERES;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 77953272604     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.847834     Document Type: Conference Paper

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