BOOK TITLE: “Electroactive Polymer
(EAP) Actuators as Artificial Muscles - Reality, Potential and Challenges”
EDITOR: Y.
Bar-Cohen, JPL
PUBLISHER:
SPIE Press
For information about purchasing the book you can contact:
SPIE by calling (360)676-3290, or e-mail to bookorders@spie.org or visit the SPIE bookstore site http://www.spie.org/web/abstracts/oepress/PM98.html
Topic 1: Introduction
Chapter 1.0 - History, Current Status and Infrastructure -- Yoseph Bar-Cohen, JPL [pages 3-44]
Topic 2: Natural Muscles
Chapter 2.0 - Natural Muscles as a Biological system -- Gerald Pollack, Felix A. Blyakhman, Fredrick B. Olga V. Yakovenko and Dwayne L. Dunaway, U. of Washington [pages 47-66]
Chapter 3.0 - Natural Muscles as an Electromechanical System -- Robert J. Full and Kenneth Meijer, U. of California, Berkeley [pages 67-83]
Topic 3: EAP Materials
SubTopic 3.1 Electric EAP
Chapter 4.0 - Electric Field Activated EAP -- Qiming Zhang, Penn State U. and J. Scheinbeim, Rutgers U. [pages 89-120]
SubTopic 3.2 Ionic EAP
Chapter 5.0 - Electroactive Polymer Gels -- Paul Calvert, UA [pages 123-138]
Chapter 6.0. - Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite (IPMC) -- Sia Nemat-Nasser, and Chris Thomas UCSD [pages 139-191]
Chapter 7.0 - Conductive Polymers (CP) – Jose-Maria Sansiñena, and Virginia Olazabal, JPL [pages 193-221]
Chapter 8.0 - Carbon Nanotube Actuators -- Gordon Wallace and Geoff Spinks, U. of Wollongong, Australia, Ray Baughman, Honeywell and Liming Dai, CSIRO [pages 223-246]
SubTopic 3.3 Molecular EAP
Chapter 9.0 - Micro, Nano and molecular scale EAP -- Michael Marsella, UCR [pages 249-263]
Topic 4: Modeling Electroactive Polymers
Chapter 10.0 - Computational Chemistry -- Kristopher E. Wise, NRC, NASA LaRC [pages 267-284]
Chapter 11.0 - Modeling and Analysis of the Chemistry and Electromechanics -- Thomas Wallmersperger, B. Kroeplin - University of Stuttgart, Germany, and Rainer W. Guelch, University of Tuebingen [pages 285-308]
Chapter 12.0 - Electro-mechanical models for optimal design and effective behavior -- Kaushik Bhattacharya, Jiangyu Li and Xiao Yu, Caltech [pages 309-330
Chapter 13.0 - Modeling IPMC for design of actuation mechanisms -- Satoshi Tadokoro, Toshi Takamori, Kobe U., and Keisuke Oguro, ONRI, Japan [pages 331-366]
Topic 5: Processing and Fabrication of EAP
Chapter 14.0 - Processing and Support Techniques -- Y. Bar-Cohen, V. Olazabal, JPL, J. Sansiñena, JPL, and J. Hinkley, NASA LaRC [pages 369-401]
Topic 6: Testing and Characterization
Chapter 15.0 - Methods and Testing and Characterization -- Stewart Sherrit, and Y. Bar-Cohen, JPL [pages 405-453]
Chapter 16.0 - Application of Dielectric EAP Actuators -- Roy Kornbluh and Ron Pelrine, SRI International [pages 457-495]
Chapter 17.0 - Biologically-inspired Robots -- Brett Kennedy, JPL, Chris Melhuish, and Andrew Adamatzky, University of the West of England [pages 497-533]
Chapter 18.0 - Applications of EAP to Entertainment Industry -- David Hanson, Disney Imagineering, and Giovanni. Pioggia, Pisa U., Italy [pages 535-565]
Chapter 19.0 - Haptic Interfacing via ERF -- Dinos Mavroidis, Rutgers U., Yoseph Bar-Cohen, JPL, and Mourad Bouzit, Rutgers U. [pages 567-594]
Chapter 20.0 - Shape Control of Precision Gossamer Apertures -- Christopher H.M. Jenkins, SDSMT [pages 595-611]
Topic 8: Lesson Learned,
Applications and Outlook
Chapter 21.0 - EAP Applications, Potentials and Challenges -- Yoseph Bar-Cohen, JPL [pages 615-659]