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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2013.17.3.533

The implementation of remote IPMC control system using android smartphone  

Kim, Gwan-Hyung (동명대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.17, no.3, 2013 , pp. 533-539 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, Ionic Polymer Metal Composite (IPMC) systems receive great attention in the fields of the medical and biomedical Engineering because of several merits in terms of new actuators and sensors and fuel cell materials. When the voltage is excited to IPMC system, it moves. Conversely, if there are any movement on the IPMC, the IPMC has charge voltage by the internal properties. Therefore the IPMC can be used as a motion sensor or force sensor. In this paper, we identify characteristics of the IPMC and control its movements from remote locations by the smart-phone system based on visual information for monitoring. Additionally, control of movements of the IPMC is realized by transmit motion commands using the smart-phone system with the blue-tooth communication. Unfortunately, there are some deficiencies to perfectly attain physical properties of the IPMC systems from our experiments in this paper. However, in its utilization point of view, we demonstrate that the IPMC has some potentials as new sensors, actuators, and fuel cells.
Keywords
IPMC(Ionic Polymer Metal Composite); Smart-Phone; Actuator; Sensor; Bluetooth;
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