Design of a new electroactive polymer based continuumactuator for endoscopic surgical robots
Résumé
This paper presents a smart continuum actuatorbased on a promising class of materials: ElectroAc-tive polymer (EAP). Indeed these polymers undergo di-mensional change in response to an applied electricalfield and could be integrated directly in an endoscopicrobot structure. We focuses on one of such materials,an electrostrictive polymer, for its valuable strain per-formances. An analytical model leading to the develop-ment of an experimental analysis of such a material inan attempts to overcome the technical gap of their in-tegration into a multilayer composite sheet to performrobotic actuation is the subject of this article.