Publications by Bryan Edward Schubert

Electroadhesive device, system and method for gripping

Dario Floreano, Samuel Rosset, Herbert Shea, Jun Shintake, Bryan Edward Schubert

A device for electroadhesion and conversion of electrical energy into mechanical energy, for example electrostatic actuation, is provided, including a soft polymeric dielectric support having at least two sets of overlapping electrodes patterned respective ...

2017

Versatile soft grippers with intrinsic electroadhesion based on multifunctional polymer actuators

Dario Floreano, Samuel Rosset, Herbert Shea, Jun Shintake, Bryan Edward Schubert

A highly versatile soft gripper that can handle an unprecedented range of object types is developed based on a new design of dielectric elastomer actuators employing an interdigitated electrode geometry, simultaneously maximizing both electroadhesion and e ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2016

A Foldable Antagonistic Actuator

Dario Floreano, Samuel Rosset, Herbert Shea, Jun Shintake, Bryan Edward Schubert

We report on an actuator based on dielectric elastomers that is capable of antagonistic actuation and passive folding. This actuator enables foldability in robots with simple structures. Unlike other antagonistic dielectric elastomer devices, our concept u ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Variable Stiffness Actuator for Soft Robotics Using Dielectric Elastomer and Low-Melting-Point Alloy

Dario Floreano, Samuel Rosset, Herbert Shea, Jun Shintake, Bryan Edward Schubert

A novel variable stiffness actuator composed of a dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) and a low-melting-point-alloy (LMPA) embedded silicone substrate is demonstrated. The device which we call variable stiffness dielectric elastomer actuator (VSDEA) enable ...

IEEE2015

Stretchable Electroadhesion for Soft Robots

Dario Floreano, Jürg Markus Germann, Bryan Edward Schubert

With the ongoing rise of soft robots there emerges a need for new soft robotic technologies that can cope with hyper-flexibility and stretchability. In this paper, we describe our developments on enabling controllable adhesion, namely electroadhesion, for ...

Ieee2014

Variable stiffness material based on rigid low-melting-point-alloy-microstructures embedded in soft poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS)

Dario Floreano, Bryan Edward Schubert

Materials with controllable stiffness are of great interest to many fields, including medicine and robotics. In this paper we develop a new type of variable stiffness material based on the combination of a rigid low-melting-point-alloy (LMPA) microstructur ...

RSC Publishing2013