Dielectric Elastomer-Based Actuators: A Modeling and Control Review for Non-Experts

H Medina, C Farmer, I Liu - Actuators, 2024 - mdpi.com
Soft robotics are attractive to researchers and developers due to their potential for
biomimicry applications across a myriad of fields, including biomedicine (eg, surgery), the …

[HTML][HTML] Low-voltage dielectric elastomer actuators by electro-mechanical resonance syntonization

S Rahmanian, A Alibakhshi, H Mouharrar… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Generally, a serious practical limitation of dielectric elastomer (DE)-based capacitors is the
need for high voltage supply (in the order of 1 kV) to activate them. High voltages require a …

Effects of electrostriction on the bifurcated electro-mechanical performance of conical dielectric elastomer actuators and sensors

C Farmer, H Medina - Robotica, 2023 - cambridge.org
Dielectric elastomers (DEs) find applications in many areas, particularly in the field of soft
robotics. When modeling and simulating DE-based actuators and sensors, a substantial …

Modeling and Designing of Active Vibration Isolation Platform

V Mikhailov, A Kopylov, A Kazakov - Journal of Robotics and …, 2024 - journal.umy.ac.id

Experimental investigation on enhancement in pure axial deformation of soft pneumatic actuator (SPA) with cap ring reinforcement

V Mehta, M Chauhan, HA Sanghvi… - Engineering …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Bio-inspired soft-robots are nowadays found their place in many applications due to its
flexibility, compliance and adaptivity to unstructured environment. The main intricate part of …

A detailed solution framework for the out‐of‐plane displacement of circular dielectric elastomer actuators

D Korn, C Farmer, H Medina - Engineering Reports, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The out‐of‐plane displacement (OPD) of a circular dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA)
membrane has been explored in recent years for a variety of important applications. Circular …

[PDF][PDF] Remote Laboratory for Machine Learning Training of a Soft Actuator's Control: A Case Study

H Medina, N Gentry, C Farmer - Proceedings of the 2021 ASEE …, 2021 - sites.asee.org
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to pose difficult challenges for engineering laboratory
research. Practicing social distancing in a lab is often difficult, and as universities move …

Flexible Materials and Applications for Wearable Sensors

B Ferrari - 2023 - digitalcommons.liberty.edu
This literature review aimed to address the limitations of rigid wearable sensors in the
medical community by investigating the development of flexible materials for remote health …