Publication Date:
2016-06-07
Description:
Electroactive Polymers (EAPs) are emerging as effective displacement actuators. These materials offer the closest resemblance of biological muscle potentially enabling unique capabilities changing the paradigm about robots construction. Under a NASA task, several EAP driven mechanisms were developed including dust wiper, gripper, and robotic arm EAP are inducing a low actuation force limiting the applications that can use their current capability. In recognition of this limitation a series of international forums were established including SPIE conference, Webhub, Newsletter, and Newsgroup. A challenge was posed to the EAP community to have an arm wrestling between robot that is equipped with EAP actuators and human.
Keywords:
Nonmetallic Materials
Type:
Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Aerospace Materials, Processes, and Environmental Technology; NASA/CP-2001-210427
Format:
application/pdf
