液体金属のソフトアクチュエータへの適用と性能評価

抄録

In recent years, research on soft robotics has progressed with the goal of coexisting society between humans and machines. Dielectric Elastomer Actuator shows excellent performance in the kind of soft actuator. In this study, we focused on DEA using liquid metal electrodes, and we challenged to investigate characteristics of the heating wire and DEA with gallium. In the results, we have found that if the resistance of the electrodes is too low, the heating wire will not generate enough heat. Furthermore, we confirmed DEA with gallium operated smoothly. When these technologies collaborate, novel controlling way of actuator will be suggested.