Contractile folded dielectric elastomer actuators

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外文摘要：New lightweight， compliant， reliable and cheap contractile linear actuators are demanded today for many fields of application， such as robotics， automation and biomedical disciplines。 Within the family of electroactive polymers， dielectric elastomers are rapidly emerging as high-performance transduction materials， resulting particularly attractive in order to accomplish different kinds of tasks。 The design of efficient device architectures， capable of taking the most from the material properties with practical solutions， is not trivial。 In particular， the state of the art of contractile dielectric elastomer actuators offers device configurations resulting not always of easy fabrication。 To overcome this drawback， a new actuating configuration， referred to as 'folded dielectric elastomer actuator'， has been recently described。 This paper presents prototype samples of this new type of actuator， along with different examples of applications currently being developed。

外文关键词：

actuatorcontractiledielectric elastomerelectroactive polymerfolded

作者：

F. Carpi、D. De Rossi

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作者单位：

Interdepartmental Research Centre 'E. Piaggio', University of Pisa School of Engineering, via Diotisalvi, 2-56100 Pisa, Italy

会议名称：

Conference on Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices(EAPAD)

会议地点：

San Diego,CA(US)

会议母体文献：

Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices(EAPAD) 2007; Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol.6524

页码：

65240D.1-65240D.13

出版时间：

2007