Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 403-418 , May 2008

Dielectric elastomers as actuators for upper limb prosthetics: Challenges and opportunities

  • Elaine Biddiss

      Affiliations

    • Bloorview Research Institute, 150 Kilgour Road, Toronto, Ont. M4G 1R8, Canada
    • Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., Canada
    • ,
  • Tom Chau

      Affiliations

    • Bloorview Research Institute, 150 Kilgour Road, Toronto, Ont. M4G 1R8, Canada
    • Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Bloorview Research Institute, 150 Kilgour Road, Toronto, Ont. M4G 1R8, Canada. Tel.: +1 416 425 6220x3515/462 0444; fax: +1 416 425 1634.

Received 5 January 2007 ,Revised 22 May 2007 ,Accepted 26 May 2007.

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☆ Supported by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada.

PII: S1350-4533(07)00104-X

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2007.05.011

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