Development and Testing of Different Types of Polymer-based Electrical Actuators

Engineering of smart materials is just beginning and the already existing results confirms the possibility of using smart materials in interesting directions. This paper presents multiple results after development and testing of different types of polymer-based actuators, as the fields and applications in which intelligent materials are currently and may further be used are numerous, such as micromotors, robotics, medicine (surgery – artificial organs and filters, orthopedics – implants, ophthalmology) as well as aerospace applications.