화학공학소재연구정보센터
Advanced Materials, Vol.28, No.19, 3690-3696, 2016
Inflated Soft Actuators with Reversible Stable Deformations
Most soft robotic systems are currently dependent on bulky compressors or pumps. A soft actuation method is presented combining hyperelastic membranes and dielectric elastomer actuators to switch between stable deformations of sealed chambers. This method is capable of large repeatable deformations, and has a number of stable states proportional to the number of actuatable membranes in the chamber.