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Experimental study of a flexible and environmentally stable electroadhesive device

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posted on 2018-01-11, 09:38 authored by Jianglong Guo, Thomas Bamber, Jagpal Singh, D. Manby, Paul A. Bingham, Laura JusthamLaura Justham, Jon PetzingJon Petzing, Jacques Penders, Michael R. Jackson
Electroadhesion is a promising adhesion mechanism for robotics and material handling applications due to several distinctive advantages it has over existing technologies. These advantages include enhanced adaptability, gentle/flexible handling, reduced complexity, and ultra-low energy consumption. Unstable electroadhesive forces, however, can arise in ambient environments. Electroadhesive devices that can produce stable forces in changing environments are thus desirable. In this study, a flexible and environmentally stable electroadhesive device was designed and manufactured by conformally coating a layer of barium titanate dielectric on a chemically etched thin copper laminate. The results, obtained from an advanced electroadhesive "normal force" testing platform, show that only a relative difference of 5.94% in the normal force direction was observed. This was achieved when the relative humidity changed from 25% to 53%, temperature from 13.7 °C to 32.8 °C, and atmospheric pressure from 999 hPa to 1016.9 hPa. This environmentally stable electroadhesive device may promote the application of the electroadhesion technology.

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The authors acknowledge support from the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Intelligent Automation, under Grant Reference No. EP/IO33467/1, and support from Innovate UK under Project Reference No. 101549.

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

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Applied Physics Letters

Volume

111

Issue

25

Citation

GUO, J. ... et al, 2017. Experimental study of a flexible and environmentally stable electroadhesive device. Applied Physics Letters, 111 (25), 251603.

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/

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2017

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This is an Open Access Article. It is published by AIP Publishing under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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0003-6951

eISSN

1077-3118

Language

  • en

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