New Opportunites in Electric Generation Using Electroactive Polymer Artificial Muscle (EPAM)

Electroactive Thermoplastic Dielectric Elastomers as a New Generation Polymer Actuators

Artificial Muscle Project: Process Development of Polydimethyl Siloxane Thin Films for Use in Dielectric Electroactive Polymer Artificial Muscle Actuators

Ionic electroactive polymer artificial muscles in space applications

A large-scale effort was carried out to test the performance of seven types of ionic electroactive polymer (IEAP) actuators in space-hazardous environmental factors in laboratory conditions. The results substantiate that the IEAP materials are tolerant to long-term freezing and vacuum environments as well as ionizing Gamma-, X-ray, and UV radiation at the levels corresponding to low Earth orbit...

Bio-inspired Underwater Robots Powered by Electroactive Polymer Artificial Muscles

Autonomous under robots are highly demanded in environmental monitoring, intelligent collection, and deep water exploration. Aquatic animals (e.g., fishes, whales, rays, etc.) are ultimate examples of superior swimmers as a result of millions of years of evolution, endowed with a variety of morphological and structural features for moving through water with speed, agility, and efficiency. Recen...

Curved Type Pneumatic Artificial Rubber Muscle Using Shape-Memory Polymer

∗1Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology 2-4 Hibikino, Wakamatsu-ku, Kitakyushu 808-0196, Japan E-mail: [email protected] ∗2Advanced Science Institute, RIKEN 2271-130 Anagahora, Shimoshidami, Moriyama-ku, Nagoya 463-0003, Japan ∗3Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University 3-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Kita-ku, Okayam...