Strain sensing by electrical capacitive variation: From stretchable materials to electronic interfaces

H Nesser, G Lubineau - Advanced Electronic Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Sensing the motion of objects and humans is essential for various applications, including
human‐machine interfaces. Over the past few years, motion sensing has been extensively …

Self sensing feedback for dielectric elastomer actuators

TA Gisby, BM O'Brien, IA Anderson - Applied Physics Letters, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Self sensing Dielectric Elastomer Actuator (DEA) artificial muscles will enable the creation of
soft, lightweight robots with animal-like capabilities. We demonstrate a fast, accurate, and …

Stretch sensors for human body motion

B O'Brien, T Gisby, IA Anderson - … Polymer Actuators and …, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Sensing motion of the human body is a difficult task. From an engineers' perspective people
are soft highly mobile objects that move in and out of complex environments. As well as the …

Enabling large scale capacitive sensing for dielectric elastomers

D Xu, TG McKay, S Michel… - … Polymer Actuators and …, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Hand motion is one of our most expressive abilities. By measuring our interactions with
everyday objects, we can create smarter artificial intelligence that can learn and adapt from …

Dielectric elastomer based stretchable textile sensor for capturing motion

NK Singh, K Takashima… - … Polymer Actuators and …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
This paper presents the fabrication, electromechanical modelling and testing of a highly
stretchable textile-dielectric elastomer capacitive sensor for capturing motion. The proposed …

[PDF][PDF] Modeling, Control and Self-Sensing of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

G Rizzello - Polytecnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy, 2016 - researchgate.net
Electro-Active Polymers (EAPs) represent an innovative class of smart materials which
exhibit relatively large deformations when solicited by electrical or chemical stimuli [1] …

Dielectric elastomer actuators as self-sensing devices: a new method of superimposing actuating and sensing signals

M Landgraf, U Zorell, T Wetzel… - Electroactive …, 2015 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) have a lot of advantages such as high energy
efficiency, unrivaled power-toweight ratio and soft structure. Furthermore this new kind of …

Analysis of stretch-dependent capacitance and its effects on energy conversion of a donut-shaped dielectric elastomer generator

AS Sadangi, A Kumar, K Patra - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dielectric elastomer generator (DEG) comprises of soft and stretchable capacitive
transducer. The DEG experiences a change in capacitance and provides a voltage gain () …

Self-sensing at low sampling-to-signal frequency ratio: An improved algorithm for dielectric elastomer actuators

G Rizzello, M Hodgins, S Seelecke… - 2016 12th IEEE/ASME …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a new self-sensing algorithm for Dielectric Elastomer actuators. The
method allows to obtain accurate estimations of material capacitance and electrodes …

[HTML][HTML] 介电弹性材料驱动器在机器人中的应用进展

郭闯强, 吴春亚, 邹添, 张子健, 刘宏 - 哈尔滨工业大学学报, 2016 - hit.alljournals.cn
简要介绍介电弹性材料驱动器的基本原理, 结构组成及其在机器人中的应用现状,
重点分析介电弹性材料性能的理论研究进展, 包括材料特性, 本构理论, 失效模式及稳定性等 …