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For many years, electroactive polymers (EAP) received relatively little attention due to the small number of available materials and their limited actuation capability.
In this paper a novel haptic interface is presented to enable human-operators to feel and intuitively mirror the stiffness/forces at remote/virtual sites enabling control of robots as human-surrogates.
The use of obliquely insonified ultrasonic waves has shown great promise in providing information about flaw characteristics and material properties of composite materials.