Electromechanically Active Polymer Blends for Actuation
Actuator mechanisms that are lightweight, durable, and efficient are needed to support telerobotic requirements for future NASA missions.
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Electro-Active Polymer (EAP) Actuators for Planetary Application
NASA is seeking to reduce the mass, size, consumed power, and cost of the instrumentation use in its future missions.
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Flexible Low-Mass Devices and Mechanisms Actuated by Electroative Polymers
Miniature, lightweight, miser actuators that operate similar to biological muscles can be used to develop robotic devices with unmatched capabilities to impact many technology areas.
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Electrorheological Fluid Based Force Feedback Device
Force feedback from remote or virtual operations is needed for numerous technologies including robotics, tele-presence, teleoperation (e.g., surgery, etc.), games and movies.
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Electrostrictive Graft Elastomers and Applications
Efficient actuators that are lightweight, high performance and compact are needed to support telerobotic requirements for future NASA missions.
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Characterization of the electromechanical properties of IPMC
An experimental setup was developed for data acquisition from IPMC strips subjected to various tip mass levels and in parallel an analytical model was developed to predict ther material response.
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