Biomedical Applications of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

John S. Bashkin Roy Kombluh, Harsha Prahlatf andAnnjoe Wong-Foy  

Biomedical Applications of Electroactive Polymer Actuators Edited by Federico Carpi and Elisabeth Smela 2009 John Wiley Sons Ltd. ISBN 978-0470-77305-5 

To facilitate and standardize the EPAM actuator design process. Artificial Muscle, Inc. has developed a standard, modular building block for linear acutators that can be deployed for many applications with minimal customization. The Universal Muscle Actuator 

1 and 250 Hz. Additional experimental optimization will be required to explore the impact of the bias spring, diaphragm stiffness and so on. 

In addition, the pump will operate most efficiently at resonance. For a D25 UMA pump, this resonance is generally in the 75-250 Hz range. For example, consider a pump that requires a blocked pressure of 0.007 N/mm (1 psi) and a free flow rate of 

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This book intends to provide a comprehensive and updated insight into both the fundamentals of each class of EAP, and examples of the most significant applications of EAP actuators in the biomedical field, either already demonstrated or currently under development. Eor this purpose, the book comprises five sections devoted to the most technologically mature EAPs, namely polymer gels, ionic polymer-metal composites, conjugated polymers, piezoelectric/electrostrictive polymers and dielectric elastomers. Each section is... 

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