{"title":"Front Matter: Volume 10966","authors":"","doi":"10.1117/12.2524992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2524992","url":null,"abstract":"modeling and analysis of EAP improved EAP (including such as 3D printing) and emerging EAP actuators (including ionic, shape applications of EAP including power This team presented a DEAnsec, which is an ultra-light (0.2 g) soft robot driven by stacked dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) operating at 450V. The DEAnsect has a flexible silicone body and three legs, each driven independently by a DEA stack. The DEAnsect moves at four body lengths per second and can be accurately steered thanks to the independent control of each DEA. It is robust, can climb slopes of 15°, and survives being flattened with a fly swatter. These demonstrations were focus on the applications of smart soft polymers, including dielectric elastomer (DE), shape memory polymer (SMP) and other smart soft structures. This team presented an inflatable robot, created from a sheet of silicone and airbrushed electrodes, which uses out of phase segmented actuation to produce linear conveyance of a light load along its length. In addition, they presented the results of their finite element simulation of their model. This demonstration has potential application for inflatable dielectric robotics.","PeriodicalId":340156,"journal":{"name":"Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) XXI","volume":"13 10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116629739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Instability and dynamic performance of dielectric elastomers (Conference Presentation)","authors":"Liwu Liu, Yanju Liu, J. Leng","doi":"10.1117/12.2513993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2513993","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we establish the thermodynamic theory of dielectric elastomer under electromechanical coupling field, different effects are considered, including polarization saturation, strain hardening and stress softening. The instability and dynamic performance of dielectric elastomer is also studied. At last, the devices and application of dielectric are introduced, such as soft robot, energy harvester, gripper.","PeriodicalId":340156,"journal":{"name":"Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) XXI","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117138527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Active catheter driven by hybrid actuator consisting of ionic polymer-metal composites and hydraulics (Conference Presentation)","authors":"J. Neubauer, Zachary Frank, K. Kim","doi":"10.1117/12.2507101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2507101","url":null,"abstract":"Catheters are commonly used in many medical procedures. These catheters require a high skill to navigate through human blood vessels and also require the use of an X-ray machine to guide the user. Active catheters have been fabricated and studied to increase the dexterity of the catheter, making the catheter much easier to use. Ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMCs) have been studied for this application. IPMCs exhibit large deformations under relatively small voltages (<5 V) making IPMCs excellent candidates for this application. One disadvantage of IPMCs is low stiffness, making the tip of the catheter hard to control in a blood stream. Hydraulic powered active catheters have also been studied. These hydraulically powered active catheters offer higher stiffness but are difficult to control. This research aims to combine these two actuation types into a single hybrid actuator. This will potentially create an active catheter capable of precise complex motion that is safe for human use.","PeriodicalId":340156,"journal":{"name":"Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) XXI","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114966864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Kellaris, Vidyacharan Gopaluni Venkata, Philipp Rothemund, C. Keplinger
{"title":"A roadmap towards strong and tunable Peano-HASEL actuators (Conference Presentation)","authors":"N. Kellaris, Vidyacharan Gopaluni Venkata, Philipp Rothemund, C. Keplinger","doi":"10.1117/12.2514115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2514115","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional robots – made from electric motors and gears – are noncompliant, complex, and bulky, which limits their ability to perform in unstructured environments and increases risk during human-robot interactions. As a result, there have been efforts to design actuators from soft, compliant materials for use in versatile and adaptable robots. Electrohydraulic Peano-HASEL (Hydraulically Amplified Self-healing ELectrostatic) actuators have shown promise as linearly contracting soft actuators with high-speed operation, scalability, and simple design. Coupled with their versatility in fabrication and material systems, Peano-HASEL actuators have broad potential in robotics. \u0000\u0000\u0000In this presentation, we derive an analytical model that accurately predicts the quasi-static stress-strain behavior and scaling laws of Peano-HASEL actuators without using fitting parameters. We provide extensive experimental validation of this model using actuators constructed from heat-sealable biaxially-oriented polypropylene shells, vegetable-based transformer oil, and ionically-conductive hydrogel electrodes. Despite using a simple set of geometric assumptions, we find robust agreement between model and experiment. From these results, we identify several straightforward methods for tuning and improving the performance of Peano-HASELs – including the creation of actuators optimized for maximum strain or maximum force, and a strategy for improving the specific energy of these devices from 6 J/kg currently to > 1000 J/kg. The basic principles of these methods are applicable to a wide range of HASEL actuators. Further, we experimentally demonstrate actuators with increased specific energies following the predictions of these modeling results. Moving forward, these results will serve as a roadmap for the development of high-performance Peano-HASEL actuators, opening new applications in robotics.","PeriodicalId":340156,"journal":{"name":"Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) XXI","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121615041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Soft electronic and robotic systems from biocompatible and degradable materials (Conference Presentation)","authors":"M. Kaltenbrunner","doi":"10.1117/12.2515814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2515814","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":340156,"journal":{"name":"Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) XXI","volume":"331 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127570914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jinrong Li, Yang Wang, Liu Liwu, Liu Yanju, L. Jinsong, S. Cai
{"title":"Biosignals controlled dielectric elastomer actuators (Conference Presentation)","authors":"Jinrong Li, Yang Wang, Liu Liwu, Liu Yanju, L. Jinsong, S. Cai","doi":"10.1117/12.2515276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2515276","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":340156,"journal":{"name":"Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) XXI","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127323493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ionic redox transistor-gated ion transport in aqueous and organic electrolytes (Conference Presentation)","authors":"V. Sundaresan, Travis M Hery","doi":"10.1117/12.2516006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2516006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":340156,"journal":{"name":"Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) XXI","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130184888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. K. Mitchell, Xingrui Wang, E. Acome, Trent Martin, K. Ly, N. Kellaris, C. Keplinger
{"title":"Rapid prototyping zipping HASEL actuators for high-speed and versatile artificial muscles (Conference Presentation)","authors":"S. K. Mitchell, Xingrui Wang, E. Acome, Trent Martin, K. Ly, N. Kellaris, C. Keplinger","doi":"10.1117/12.2514325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2514325","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":340156,"journal":{"name":"Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) XXI","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117075500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}