Supporting data for "3D printed electrically-driven soft actuators"

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Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

Soft Actuators

Soft Robotics

3D Printing

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2015-10-01
2017-12-01

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Supporting data for "3D printed electrically-driven soft actuators"

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2020-06-09

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Haghiashtiani, Ghazaleh

Habtour, Ed

Park, Sung-Hyun

Gardea, Frank

McAlpine, Michael C

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McAlpine Research Group

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McAlpine, Michael C
mcalpine@umn.edu

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Soft robotics is an emerging field enabled by advances in the development of soft materials with properties commensurate to their biological counterparts, for the purpose of reproducing locomotion and other distinctive capabilities of active biological organisms. The development of soft actuators is fundamental to the advancement of soft robots and bio-inspired machines. Among the different material systems incorporated in the fabrication of soft devices, ionic hydrogel–elastomer hybrids have recently attracted vast attention due to their favorable characteristics, including their analogy with human skin. Here, we demonstrate that this hybrid material system can be 3D printed as a soft dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) with a unimorph configuration that is capable of generating high bending motion in response to an applied electrical stimulus. We characterized the device actuation performance via applied (i) ramp-up electrical input, (ii) cyclic electrical loading, and (iii) payload masses. A maximum vertical tip displacement of 9.78 ± 2.52 mm at 5.44 kV was achieved from the tested 3D printed DEAs. Furthermore, the nonlinear actuation behavior of the unimorph DEA was successfully modeled using an analytical energetic formulation and a finite element method (FEM).

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The data set includes the experimental data and the corresponding code files for 3D printed electrically-driven soft actuators.

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2018.02.002
Haghiashtiani, G., Habtour, E., Park, S. H., Gardea, F., & McAlpine, M. C. “3D printed electrically-driven soft actuators”. Extreme Mechanics Letters 21 (2018): 1-8.

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U.S. Army Research Office under Award No. W911NF-15-1-0469
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health, Award Number 1DP2EB020537
The graduate school of the University of Minnesota, 2017–18 Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship

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Haghiashtiani, Ghazaleh; Habtour, Ed; Park, Sung-Hyun; Gardea, Frank; McAlpine, Michael C. (2020). Supporting data for "3D printed electrically-driven soft actuators". Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://doi.org/10.13020/52fm-kj52.

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