Abstract Dielectric elastomer (DE) grippers have attracted much attention in safety applications due to their intrinsic compliance, large deformation and high response speed. The performances of DE grippers can be influenced by the design of both the electrode patterns on the DE film and the film supporting frame. This paper presents a design scheme using Bezier curves for topology optimization of both electrode patterns and frame structures. Two kinds of DE grippers are designed to maximize the output displacements. Thereafter, the optimized DE grippers are fabricated and tested. The agreement between experiments and simulations is observed, which shows the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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使用贝塞尔曲线设计介电弹性体夹具

摘要 介电弹性体（DE）夹具因其固有的柔顺性、大变形和高响应速度而在安全应用中备受关注。DE 夹持器的性能会受到 DE 薄膜上电极图案和薄膜支撑框架的设计的影响。本文提出了一种使用贝塞尔曲线对电极图案和框架结构进行拓扑优化的设计方案。设计了两种 DE 夹具以最大化输出位移。此后，制造和测试优化的 DE 夹具。观察到实验和模拟之间的一致性，这表明了所提出方法的有效性。