Dielectric Elastomer-Based Actuators: A Modeling and Control Review for Non-Experts

H Medina, C Farmer, I Liu - Actuators, 2024 - mdpi.com
Soft robotics are attractive to researchers and developers due to their potential for
biomimicry applications across a myriad of fields, including biomedicine (eg, surgery), the …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond Human Touch: Integrating Soft Robotics with Environmental Interaction for Advanced Applications

N Ghobadi, N Sepehri, W Kinsner, T Szturm - Actuators, 2024 - mdpi.com
Soft robotics is an emerging field dedicated to the design and development of robots with
soft structures. Soft robots offer unique capabilities in terms of flexibility, adaptability, and …

LSTM-NN-Enhanced Tracking Control for PAM-Driven Parallel Robot Systems With Guaranteed Performance

X Zhang, S Diao, T Yang, Y Fang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mechanical systems often face unpredictable surrounding situations in applications, which
bring lots of intangible uncertainties into system operations. Further, some robot systems …

Dynamic Model Based Neural Implicit Embedded Tracking Control Approach for Dielectric Elastomer Actuators With Rate-Dependent Viscoelasticity

X Chen, J Ren, G Gu, J Zou - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we propose a dynamic model neural implicit embedded controller (called NEC)
for high-precision tracking control of dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) by eliminating the …

Towards Spiking Control for Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

L Sohlbach, R Harmann, FM Quintana… - 2023 11th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dielectric Elastomer Actuators (DEAs) can be seen as flexible capacitors, where an
incompressible elastomer is sandwiched between two compliant electrodes. From the …

Deformation mapping in dielectric elastomer actuators using electrical impedance tomography

R Ellingham III, Y Choi, T Giffney - … Polymer Actuators and …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Dielectric elastomer actuators commonly use flexible conductive electrodes to apply an
electric potential for actuation. Depending on the material used, these electrodes often …