三次元形状の誘電エラストマアクチュエータの作製・駆動

抄録

In this paper, we reported fabricating and driving three-dimensional Dielectric Elastomer Actuator (DEA). DEA is one of the most attractive actuators because of its high responsibility, easy to miniaturize. However, most of DEAs have 2D shape and there is little research toward driving 3D DEA. In this study, we fabricate 3D DEA using dip-mold with PDMS and PVA mold and drive fabricated object by using water pressure system. Also, we added electrodes to the actuator in two places and inputted different signals each other to switch the area of being applied voltage periodically.