Recent progress on electroelastomer artificial muscles and their application for biomimetic robots

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5385, Issue , 2004, Pages 41-50

  Pei, Qibing ^a   Pelrine, Ron ^a   Rosenthal, Marcus ^a   Stanford, Scott ^a   Prahlad, Harsha ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial muscles; Biomimetics; Dielectric elastomers; Electroelastomers; Multifunctional; Robotics

Indexed keywords

ACRYLICS; ACTUATORS; BIOMECHANICS; FUNCTIONS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MUSCLE; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

BIOMIMETIC ROBOTS; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER; ELECTROELASTOMER ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES; ELECTROELASTOMERS;

ELASTOMERS;

EID: 8844268503     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.540462     Document Type: Conference Paper

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