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  • 标题:Improving the Actuation Speed and Multi-Cyclic Actuation Characteristics of Silicone/Ethanol Soft Actuators
  • 其他标题:Improving the Actuation Speed and Multi-Cyclic Actuation Characteristics of Silicone/Ethanol Soft Actuators
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  • 作者:Boxi Xia ; Aslan Miriyev ; Cesar Trujillo
  • 期刊名称:Actuators
  • 电子版ISSN:2076-0825
  • 出版年度:2020
  • 卷号:9
  • 期号:3
  • 页码:62
  • DOI:10.3390/act9030062
  • 出版社:MDPI Publishing
  • 摘要:The actuation of silicone/ethanol soft composite material-actuators is based on the phase change of ethanol upon heating, followed by the expansion of the whole composite, exhibiting high actuation stress and strain. However, the low thermal conductivity of silicone rubber hinders uniform heating throughout the material, creating overheated damaged areas in the silicone matrix and accelerating ethanol evaporation. This limits the actuation speed and the total number of operation cycles of these thermally-driven soft actuators. In this paper, we showed that adding 8 wt.% of diamond nanoparticle-based thermally conductive filler increases the thermal conductivity (from 0.190 W/mK to 0.212 W/mK), actuation speed and amount of operation cycles of silicone/ethanol actuators, while not affecting the mechanical properties. We performed multi-cyclic actuation tests and showed that the faster and longer operation of 8 wt.% filler material-actuators allows collecting enough reliable data for computational methods to model further actuation behavior. We successfully implemented a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network model to predict the actuation force exerted in a uniform multi-cyclic actuation experiment. This work paves the way for a broader implementation of soft thermally-driven actuators in various robotic applications.
  • 关键词:soft actuator; silicone/ethanol; actuation speed; thermal conductivity; multi-cyclic actuation; mechanical properties; performance prediction; machine learning; neural networks soft actuator ; silicone/ethanol ; actuation speed ; thermal conductivity ; multi-cyclic actuation ; mechanical properties ; performance prediction ; machine learning ; neural networks
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