Soft dielectric elastomer microactuator for robot locomotion

This paper presents dielectric elastomer actuated robot locomotion and the development of a robotic model structure based using a dielectric elastomer actuator. A pre-stretched dielectric elastomer actuator is fabricated onto acrylic frames to form single and multiple robotic crawler models. The cra...

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Main Authors: Mohd. Ghazali, Farah Afiqa (Author), Wong, Yi Jie (Author), Ahmad Fuaad, Mariatul Rawdhah (Author), Mohamed Ali, Mohamed Sultan (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science, 2020-12.
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520 |a This paper presents dielectric elastomer actuated robot locomotion and the development of a robotic model structure based using a dielectric elastomer actuator. A pre-stretched dielectric elastomer actuator is fabricated onto acrylic frames to form single and multiple robotic crawler models. The crawler models demonstrate forwards motion upon application of high voltage to the attached dielectric elastomer actuator. Characterizations revealed that the fabricated multiple crawler models showed results over the single crawler model in terms of locomotion potential. The maximum forward locomotion speed of the multiple crawler models is recorded as 1.2 mm/s. Nonetheless, precise results are highly attainable provided a structured and coherent fabrication technique of the dielectric elastomer actuator is implemented. 
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