Performance of a prototype traveling-wave actuator made from a dielectric elastomer

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 525-533

  Poole, Alan D ^a   Booker, Julian David ^a   Wishart, Clive L ^a   McNeill, Neville ^a   Mellor, Philip H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actuators; dielectric materials; traveling wave (TW) devices

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE REGIONS; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS; ELECTRICAL CONTROL; ELECTRICAL STIMULI; FRICTION SURFACES; HIGH-VOLTAGE CONVERTER; MULTIPLE-CHANNEL; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; STACK CONFIGURATIONS; TRAVELING WAVE;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELASTOMERS; SILICONES;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 84860689965     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2011.2107526     Document Type: Article

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