Computer-controlled ultra high voltage amplifier for dielectric elastomer actuators
作者机构:Department of Mechanical and Industrial EngineeringUniversity of Gadjah MadaYogyakarta 55281Indonesia Department of Mechanical EngineeringTokyo Institute of TechnologyTokyo 152-8550Japan Department of Engineering and ScienceShibaura Institute of TechnologyTokyo 135-8548Japan Department of Electrical EngineeringShibaura Institute of TechnologyTokyo 135-8548Japan Department of Engineering Science and MechanicsShibaura Institute of TechnologyTokyo 135-8548Japan Living Systems Materialogy(LiSM)Research GroupInternational Research Frontiers Initiative(IRFI)Tokyo Institute of TechnologyYokohama 226-8501Japan
出 版 物:《Biomimetic Intelligence & Robotics》 (仿生智能与机器人(英文))
年 卷 期:2024年第4卷第1期
页 面:14-23页
核心收录:
学科分类:080202[工学-机械电子工程] 08[工学] 0804[工学-仪器科学与技术] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程(可授工学、理学学位)] 0802[工学-机械工程] 0811[工学-控制科学与工程] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术(可授工学、理学学位)]
基 金:This work was supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science,Japan for their support under Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas(18H05473) the JSPS,Japan KAKENHI(21J15489 and 23K13290)
主 题:Dielectric elastomer actuators Electric amplifier Soft actuators Soft robotics Soft actuator education
摘 要:Soft robotics is a breakthrough technology to support human-robot *** soft structure of a soft robot can increase safety during human and robot *** of the promising soft actuators for soft robotics is dielectric elastomer actuators(DEAs).DEAs can operate silently and have an excellent energy *** simple structure of DEAs leads to the easy fabrication of soft *** simplicity combined with silent operation and high energy density make DEAs interesting for soft robotics *** actuation follows the Maxwell-pressure *** pressure produced in the DEAs actuation depends much on the voltage *** DEAs requires high voltage to gain an *** the power consumption of DEAs is in the milli-Watt range,the current needed to operate the DEAs can be *** commercially available DC-DC converters can convert the volt range to the kV *** order to get a voltage in the 2-3 kV range,the reliable DC-DC converter can be pricy for each *** problem hinders the education of soft actuators,especially for a newcomer laboratory that works in soft electric *** paper introduces an entirely do-it-yourself(DIY)Ultrahigh voltage amplifier(UHV-Amp)for education in soft ***-Amp can amplify 12 V to at a maximum of 4 kV *** a demonstration,we used this UHV-Amp to test a single layer of powdered-based *** strategy to build this educational type UHV-Amp was utilizing a Cockcroft-Walton circuit structure to amplify the voltage range to the kV *** its current state,the UHV-Amp has the potential to achieve approximately 4 *** created a simple platform to control the UHV-Amp from a personal *** near future,we expect this easy control of the UHV-Amp can contribute to the education of soft electric actuators.