Electroactive textile actuators for wearable and soft robots

Jianglong Guo; Chaoqun Xiang; Tim Helps; Majid Taghavi; Jonathan Rossiter

doi:10.1109/ROBOSOFT.2018.8404942

Electroactive textile actuators for wearable and soft robots

Jianglong Guo
, Chaoqun Xiang
, Tim Helps
, Majid Taghavi
, Jonathan Rossiter

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Abstract

Smart fabrics offer the potential for a new generation of soft robotics, reactive clothing and wearable technologies through the fusion of smart materials, textiles and electrical circuitry. In this work we present a range of smart fabrics and reactive textiles for soft robotics. We investigate conductive stretchable textiles for the fabrication of dielectric elastomer (DE) and electroadhesive (EA) actuators. These include a planar DE actuator, a bending DE actuator, and an EA actuator. The textile DE actuator generated a relative area expansion of 16.4 % under 9 kV while the bending actuator generated a relative expansion of 5 % under 6 kV. The EA actuator generated a shear adhesive force of 0.14 kPa at less than 5 kV. This work shows the feasibility of using conductive fabrics for soft actuation technologies. Conductive textiles have the potential to deliver simple, comfortable, multi-function and wearable soft robotic devices and complete soft robots.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2018 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2018)
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of a meeting held 24-28 April 2018, Livorno, Italy
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	339-343
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538645161
ISBN (Print)	9781538645178
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOSOFT.2018.8404942
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	1st IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, RoboSoft 2018 - Livorno, Italy Duration: 24 Apr 2018 → 28 Apr 2018

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Conference	1st IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, RoboSoft 2018
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Livorno
Period	24/04/18 → 28/04/18

Research Groups and Themes

Tactile Action Perception

Keywords

conductive textiles
dielectric elastomer actuators
electroadhesion
soft actuators

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Guo, J., Xiang, C., Helps, T., Taghavi, M., & Rossiter, J. (2018). Electroactive textile actuators for wearable and soft robots. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2018): Proceedings of a meeting held 24-28 April 2018, Livorno, Italy (pp. 339-343). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOSOFT.2018.8404942

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Guo, J, Xiang, C, Helps, T, Taghavi, M & Rossiter, J 2018, Electroactive textile actuators for wearable and soft robots. in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2018): Proceedings of a meeting held 24-28 April 2018, Livorno, Italy. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 339-343, 1st IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, RoboSoft 2018, Livorno, Italy, 24/04/18. https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOSOFT.2018.8404942

Electroactive textile actuators for wearable and soft robots. / Guo, Jianglong; Xiang, Chaoqun; Helps, Tim et al.
2018 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2018): Proceedings of a meeting held 24-28 April 2018, Livorno, Italy. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018. p. 339-343.

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Guo J, Xiang C, Helps T, Taghavi M, Rossiter J. Electroactive textile actuators for wearable and soft robots. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2018): Proceedings of a meeting held 24-28 April 2018, Livorno, Italy. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). 2018. p. 339-343 Epub 2018 Jul 9. doi: 10.1109/ROBOSOFT.2018.8404942

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