Biomimetic robots autonomously driven by dielectric elastomers (BROADCAST)

Projekt Broadcast将提供一种新的强大的软仿生系统，这些系统可以以节省的、受生物启发的方式与环境互动。该方法基于介电弹性体(DE)电路生产技术、新型软电子材料和信号处理新方法的重大进展。Broadcast研究基于生物启发的机电控制策略驱动机器人结构的多功能DES，例如中央图案生成器、自主蠕动、运动和类似的其他策略。这就需要用于柔性电极和传感器的新材料，以提供诸如杨氏模数、导电性和压阻率等缩减的电气和机电性能。

Projekt BROADCAST will deliver a new class of powerful soft, biomimetic systems that can interact with their environment in a save, bio-inspired way. The approach is based on major advances in the production technology of dielectric elastomers (DE) circuitry, new soft electronic materials, and new approaches in signal processing. BROADCAST investigates multi-functional DEs that drive robotic structures based on bio-inspired electro-mechanical control strategies such as central pattern generators, autonomous peristalsis, locomotion and similar others. This requires new materials for flexible electrodes and sensors that provide curtailed electrical and electro-mechanical properties, such as Young's-modulus, conductivity and piezo-resistivity.