Power for robotic artificial muscles

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 107-111

  Anderson, Iain A ^a,b   Ieropoulos, Ioannis A ^c   McKay, Thomas ^a   O'Brien, Benjamin ^a   Melhuish, Chris ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c BRISTOL ROBOTICS LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dielectric elastomer; energy harvesting; fuel cells (FCs); power generation; robots

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; AUTONOMOUS POWER SOURCE; AUTONOMOUS ROBOT; AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER ACTUATORS; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS; ENERGY HARVESTER; HIGH VOLTAGE; HIGH-VOLTAGES; LOW-VOLTAGE; MECHANICAL EFFICIENCY; MOVING TREES; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SELF-PRIMING; VOLTAGE CONVERTER; WIND ENERGY;

ACTUATORS; DC-DC CONVERTERS; ECOLOGY; ELASTOMERS; FUEL CELLS; GAS FUEL PURIFICATION; MUSCLE; PLASTICS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SOLAR ENERGY; WIND POWER;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 78651376170     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2010.2090894     Document Type: Article

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