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Flexible and stretchable electrodes for dielectric elastomer actuators

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are flexible lightweight actuators that can generate strains of over 100 %. They are used in applications ranging from haptic feedback (mm-sized devices), to cm-scale soft robots, to meter-long blimps. DEAs consist of ...

Springer2013

Survivability of integrated PVDF film sensors to accelerated ageing conditions in aeronautical/aerospace structures

Alain Schorderet, Joël Cugnoni, Enrique René Guzman Solares

This work validates the use of integrated polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) film sensors for dynamic testing, even after being subjected to UV-thermo-hygro-mechanical accelerated ageing conditions. The verification of PVDF sensors' survivability in these envi ...

Institute of Physics2013

Optimal design of a squeeze film actuator for friction feedback

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Christophe Winter

Sense of touch belongs to one of the five Human Senses. Whereas blind people largely use feeling in everyday life, sighted person mainly focus on hearing and vision. However, haptic interface started being introduced in customers applications, such as smar ...

IEEE Computer Society2013

An electroactive polymer energy harvester for wireless sensor networks

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset

This paper reports the design, fabrication, and testing of a soft electroactive polymer power generator that has a volume of 1cm(3). The generator provides an opportunity to harvest energy from environmental sources to power wireless sensor networks becaus ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013

Sensor and actuator integrated low-profile robotic Origami

Jamie Paik, Amir Firouzeh, Yi Sun

The robotic origami (Robogami) is a low-profile, sheet-like robot with multi degrees-of-freedom (DoF) that embeds different functional layers. Due to its planar form, it can take advantage of precise 2D fabrication methods usually reserved for micro and na ...

Ieee2013

Soft Robot for Gait Rehabilitation of Spinalized Rodents

Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Jamie Paik, Joachim von Zitzewitz, Rubia van den Brand, Yi Sun, Yun Seong Song

Soft actuators made of highly elastic polymers allow novel robotic system designs, yet application-specific soft robotic systems are rarely reported. Taking notice of the characteristics of soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) such as high customizability and l ...

Ieee2013

Self-sensing dielectric elastomer actuators in closed-loop operation

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset

Because of their large output strain, dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) have been proposed for tunable optics applications such as tunable gratings. However, the inherent viscoelastic drift of these actuators is an important drawback and closed-loop op ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013

Characterization of Silicone Rubber Based Soft Pneumatic Actuators

Jamie Paik, Yi Sun, Yun Seong Song

Conventional pneumatic actuators have been a popular choice due to their decent force/torque output. Nowadays, new generation of pneumatic actuator made out of highly compliant elastomers, which we call soft pneumatic actuators (SPA), are drawing increasin ...

Ieee2013

Individually actuated cantilever arrays for cell force spectroscopy

Jürgen Brugger, Rosario Maurizio Gullo, Jonas Gustav Henriksson

The design, fabrication and characterization of thermally actuated, parallelizable cantilevers is presented. Thermal simulations of operation in liquid give indications regarding displacement range in such an environment. ...

2013

Rotation capacity and stress redistribution ability of R-UHPFRC-RC composite continuous beams: an experimental investigation

Talayeh Noshiravani

The results of tests on two continuous composite beams combining a reinforced concrete (RC) beam with a layer of reinforced ultra-high performance fiber reinforced concrete (R-UHPFRC) are presented. The R-UHPFRC element acts both as a tensile membrane and ...

Springer Verlag2013

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