Rotary Motion Achieved by New Torsional Dielectric Elastomer Actuators Design
- This paper reports a new way to produce a rotation motion actuated by dielectric elastomer actuators. Two specific electrode designs have been developed and the rotation of the actuator centers has been demonstrated and measured. At low strains, the rotation shows a nearly quadratic dependence with the voltage. This behavior was used to compare the performances between the two proposed designs. Among the tested configurations, a maximal rotation of 10 degrees was achieved.
| Author details: | Remi Wache, Denis N. McCarthy, Sebastian Risse, Guggi Kofod |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1109/TMECH.2014.2301633 |
| ISSN: | 1083-4435 |
| ISSN: | 1941-014X |
| Title of parent work (English): | IEEE ASME transactions on mechatronics |
| Publisher: | Inst. of Electr. and Electronics Engineers |
| Place of publishing: | Piscataway |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2015 |
| Publication year: | 2015 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
| Tag: | Dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA); electroactive polymer; rotation |
| Volume: | 20 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Number of pages: | 3 |
| First page: | 975 |
| Last Page: | 977 |
| Funding institution: | German government [KFZ: 13N10684, 13N10685] |
| Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Physik und Astronomie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
