Publications associées à A polyphosphazene elastomer containing 2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy groups as a dielectric in electrically responsive soft actuators

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An efficient and compact supply for electroactive polymers

New trends in electroactive-polymers (EAP) based devices for soft actuators and for electrocaloric cooling revive studies on compact, efficient, reversible and low power supply. High electrode resistance, high voltage and small capacitance of EAPs represen ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)2025

Preliminary Evaluation of a Soft Wearable Robot for Shoulder Movement Assistance

Silvestro Micera

Spinal cord injuries (SCI) often lead to upper limb impairment, necessitating innovative solutions for daily assistance beyond traditional rigid robotics due to their impractical weight and size. Despite still preliminary, soft wearables are arising as a p ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2025

Proteins as sustainable and recyclable polymers for a circular economy in bioplastics

Laura Roset Julia

In 2020, 6.9 million tonnes of plastic ended up in landfills. A circular economy offers a framework for integrating sustainability into the plastic industry. Protein-based materials are an emerging field with the potential to replace plastics thanks to the ...

EPFL2025

Soft functional fibers for mechanical sensing and actuation

Andreas Leber

The measurement and generation of mechanical deformations is a key functionality in health monitoring, human-machine interaction, and soft robotics. However, current methods typically rely on small and hard transducers, which result in poor performance, cu ...

EPFL2021

Variable-stiffness tensegrity spine

Roc Arandes Vilagrasa, Dario Floreano, Davide Zappetti, Enrico Ajanic

Vertebrates, including amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, with their ability to change the stiffness of the spine to increase load-bearing capability or flexibility, have inspired roboticists to develop artificial variable-stiffness spines. However, ...

2020

Trajectory Planning of a Bio-inspired Walker in 3D Cluttered Environments using Internal Models

Auke Ijspeert, Nicolas Benoît Dominique Van der Noot

Navigation of humanoids in cluttered environments is a complex task which requires sensorimotor coordination while maintaining the balance of the walker. Typically, robots rely on greedy computation of slow, inefficient and unnatural gaits. This contrasts ...

IEEE2020

A Magnetic Continuum Device with Variable Stiffness for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Dario Floreano, Alice Tonazzini

One of the challenges of minimally invasive surgery is the dexterous manipulation and precise control of small diameter continuum surgical instruments. In this paper, a magnetic continuum device with variable stiffness (VS) is presented, whose tip can be p ...

2019

Injection Device

Yves Perriard, Romain David Besuchet

An injection deviee for injecting injection material, comprising: an elastic deformable element (3) able to exert a pushing force on a piston (20) of a syringe (2) so as to eject a quantity of injection material out of the syringe (2); a stopper ( 4) for r ...

Juvaplus SA, Neuchâtel (CH)2015

Decentralized multi-robot coordination in crowded workspaces

Laleh Makarem

The coordination of multi-robot systems is becoming one of the most important areas of research in robotics, mostly because it is required by numerous complex applications. These applications range from intelligent transportation systems, search and rescue ...

EPFL2015

Crystallization of polylactide during impregnation with liquid CO2

Jan-Anders Edvin Maansson, John Christopher Plummer

The evolution of the morphology and degree of crystallinity was investigated postmortem in initially amorphous specimens of a commercial poly(dl-lactide) with a relatively low d-lactide content, after different immersion times in liquid CO2 at 10 A degrees ...

Springer Verlag2015

Improved electromechanical behavior in castable dielectric elastomer actuators

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Samin Akbari

Non-viscoelastic castable elastomers are replacing the polyacrylate VHB films in the new generations of dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) to achieve fast and reliable actuation. We introduce the optimum prestretch conditions to enhance the electromecha ...

American Institute of Physics2013