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Stacked Artificial Muscle Actuator Based on Dielectric Elastomer  

Kwon, Hyeok-Yong (School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan Univ.)
Ahn, Kwang-Jun (School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan Univ.)
Kim, Dae-Gyeong (School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan Univ.)
Lee, Hyung-Seok (School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan Univ.)
Nguyen, Canh Toan (School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan Univ.)
Koo, Ja-Choon (School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan Univ.)
Moon, Hyung-Pil (School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan Univ.)
Nam, Jae-Do (Department of Polymer System Engineering, Sungkyunkwan Univ)
Choi, Hyouk-Ryeol (School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan Univ.)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering / v.28, no.11, 2011 , pp. 1234-1241 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this work the potential, and the perspectives of the dielectric elastomer actuator are overviewed briefly. As an exemplary work, we introduce a novel contractile artificial muscle actuator based on Synthetic Elastomer(SE). SE is the name of new dielectric elastomer material we have developed and its synthesis procedures and evaluations are described in the first. The contractile artificial muscle actuator is made by stacking the actuator unit one by one along the in thickness direction and finished up by bonding the multi-stacked actuator. Its possibility for the robotic actuator is discussed and demonstrated via experiments.
Keywords
Dielectric Elastomer; Actuator; Contractile;
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