Design of Electrohydrodynamic Devices with Consideration of Electrostatic Energy.

ABSTRACT: The importance of actuators that can be integrated with flexible robot structures and mechanisms has increased in recent years with the advance of soft robotics. In particular, electrohydrodynamic (EHD) actuators, which have expandable integrability to adapt to the flexible motion of soft robots, have received much attention in the field of soft robotics. Studies have deepened the understanding of steady states of EHD phenomena but nonsteady states are not well understood. We herein observe the development process of fluid in a microchannel adopting a Schlieren technique with the aid of a high-speed camera. In addition, we analyze the behavior of fluid flow in a microchannel that is designed to have pairs of parallel plate electrodes adopting a computational fluid dynamics technique. Resul

SUBMITTER: Sato T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9494731 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature