Prestretch plays an indispensable role in programming the voltage-induced deformation of dielectric elastomer actuators(DEAs).However,lacking rational design methods,the level of prestretch is usually determined throu...
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Prestretch plays an indispensable role in programming the voltage-induced deformation of dielectric elastomer actuators(DEAs).However,lacking rational design methods,the level of prestretch is usually determined through time-consuming experiments and trial-and-error *** this paper,we aim to quantitatively determine the optimal biaxial prestretch ratios for maximizing the voltage-induced displacement of *** on the Lagrange method and adjoint sensitivity analysis,we obtain the derivative of the displacement field with respect to the principal prestretch ratios,in which the nonlinearities and complex electromechanical coupling of DEAs are rigorously taken into *** derivative information allows for performing gradient-based optimization at a high convergence *** propose a comprehensive optimization framework connecting the nonlinear finite element analysis and sensitivity analysis to iteratively identify the optimal prestretch *** validate our method on two classical types of DEAs,i.e.,planar DEAs with fixed boundaries and free-standing three-dimensional dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures(DEMES).The simulation and experiment results both show that remarkable improvements in concerned displacements are obtained compared with the non-optimized designs.
Surgical smoke can obscure the surgeon's line of sight during the laparoscopic procedure, potentially posing risk to the patients. Robot assisted-minimally invasive surgery (MIS) also faces such a challenge, which...
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Understanding the physical essence of wheel-terrain interaction is critical to establish the terramechanics model. The discrete element method (DEM) can be used to simulate a series of wheel-terrain interaction quickl...
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Ground resonance (GR) is a potentially destructive mechanical instability involving the coupling of the regressive rotor mode to the fuselage motion. Vibration can be disastrous if measures are not taken in time to mi...
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Robot actuators directly affect the performance of robots, and robot drives directly affect the performance of robot actuators. With the development of robotics, robots have put higher requirements on robot drives, su...
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Hunting stability is an important performance criterion in railway *** study proposes an incorporation of a bio-inspired limb-like structure(LLS)-based nonlinear damping into the motor suspension system for traction u...
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Hunting stability is an important performance criterion in railway *** study proposes an incorporation of a bio-inspired limb-like structure(LLS)-based nonlinear damping into the motor suspension system for traction units to improve the nonlinear critical speed and hunting stability of high-speed trains(HSTs).Initially,a vibration transmission analysis is conducted on a HST vehicle and a metro vehicle that suffered from hunting motion to explore the effect of different motor suspension systems from on-track ***,a simplified lateral dynamics model of an HST bogie is established to investigate the influence of the motor suspension on the bogie hunting *** bifurcation analysis is applied to optimize the motor suspension parameters for high critical ***,the nonlinear damping of the bio-inspired LLS,which has a positive correlation with the relative displacement,can further improve the modal damping of hunting motion and nonlinear critical speed compared with the linear motor suspension ***,a comprehensive numerical model of a high-speed train,considering all nonlinearities,is established to investigate the influence of different types of motor *** simulation results are well consistent with the theoretical *** benefits of employing nonlinear damping of the bio-inspired LLS into the motor suspension of HSTs to enhance bogie hunting stability are thoroughly validated.
Nuclear power is worldwide popular and keeps rapidly growing, but manual operation in nuclear facilities is challenging by safety and workload issues. Mobile manipulators are ideal to replace human works in nuclear ap...
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This work investigates the design of the sensor system and control system for the coupled adaptive multi-fingered dexterous hand with actively switchable modalities. Considering the specific mechanical structure chara...
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The damage models based on the eight-chain model and the affine full-chain network model are not adequate to describe the damage behaviors in double-network(DN)*** overcome this limitation,we propose a combined chain ...
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The damage models based on the eight-chain model and the affine full-chain network model are not adequate to describe the damage behaviors in double-network(DN)*** overcome this limitation,we propose a combined chain stretch model with new damage flow *** is demonstrated that the new proposed micro-chain stretch is a reduced form of the complete representation for the transversely isotropic tensor *** a result,the damage models based on the eight-chain model and the affine model are incorporated as special *** effects of chain affineness and network entangling are simultaneously involved in the new model,while only one of these two effects can be characterized in either the eight-chain model or the affine *** is further shown that the new model can effectively capture the Mullins features of the DN hydrogels and achieve better agreement with the experimental data than the affine model and the eight-chain model.
Scene information plays a crucial role in motion control, attitude perception, and path planning for wheeled planetary rovers (WPRs). Terrain recognition is the fundamental component of scene recognition. Due to the r...
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