Modeling and Experiment Evaluation of Circular Polyacrylate Dielectric Elastomer Actuation

Author

Qi, Xinmei ; Zheng, Shousen ; Chen, Juan

Author_Institution

Eng. Sch., Sun Yat-sen Univ., Guangzhou

fYear

2006

fDate

17-20 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

1271

Lastpage

1274

Abstract

Dielectric elastomer (DE) is a type of electroactive polymer with large strain, fast response and high efficiency, and is thought to be a promising actuation and sensing material for new device and structure. Three strain energy forms are studied for DE actuation modeling. Also, uniaxial extension experiment and plane circular actuator actuation experiment were performed based on polyacrylate dielectric elastomer HN1110. Material parameter calculation and modeling evaluation are presented according to experiment result.

Keywords

dielectric materials; elastomers; electric actuators; circular polyacrylate dielectric elastomer actuation; electroactive polymer; material parameter calculation; plane circular actuator actuation; strain energy forms; uniaxial extension experiment; Actuators; Biological materials; Biomimetics; Capacitive sensors; Dielectric devices; Dielectric materials; Polymers; Prosthetics; Robot sensing systems; Voltage; Actuator; Dielectric Elastomer; Electroactive Polymer; Smart structure;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Biomimetics, 2006. ROBIO '06. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kunming

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0570-X

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0571-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBIO.2006.340111

Filename

4142048