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Abstract: This paper presents an in-depth examination of the nonlinear deformation induced by dielectric actuation in pre-stressed ideal dielectric elastomers. A nonlinear ordinary differential ...

Therefore, this article presents a curvature profile-based method for continuum robots deformed by actuation to estimate the external contact force. A kinematic model of a continuum robot under ...