ISSN:
1013-9826
Source:
Scientific.Net: Materials Science & Technology / Trans Tech Publications Archiv 1984-2008
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
Notes:
This paper presents a new design of an artificial muscle actuator called tube-spring actuator(TSA) that is fabricated with dielectric elastomer. The new actuator construction includes two steps:the first is that a cylindrical actuator is manufactured with dielectric elastomer with multi-layerlamination process. Then a compressed spring is inserted to inside the tube as the second step of theprocess. The inner spring is used to maximize the axial deformation while constraining the radialcontraction. This design enables effective linear actuation with largest amount strain. The monitoredstrain of active length is up to 15 percents. The manufactured actuator is applied to a robot hand as anexample of the actual application
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://www.tib-hannover.de/fulltexts/2011/0528/01/52/transtech_doi~10.4028%252Fwww.scientific.net%252FKEM.326-328.1387.pdf
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