Electroactive Polymers as Artificial Muscles - Reality and Challenges
Electroactive Polymers as Artificial Muscles - Reality and Challenges
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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.
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Electroactive Polymers as Artificial Muscles - Reality and Challenges
2001-02-01
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English