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Soft adhesive pads are needed for many robotics applications, and oneapproach is based on electroadhesion. Here we present a general analytic modeland numerical results for electroadhesion for soft solids with arbitrarytime-dependent applied voltage, and arbitrary dielectric response of thesolids, and including surface roughness. We consider the simplestcoplanar-plate-capacitor model with a periodic array of conducting stripslocated close to the surface of the adhesive pad, and discuss the optimumgeometrical arrangement to obtain the maximal electroadhesion force. Forsurfaces with roughness the (non-contact) gap between the solids will stronglyinfluence the electroadhesion, and we show how the electroadhesion force can becalculated using a contact mechanics theory for elastic solids. The theory andmodels we present can be used to optimize the design of adhesive pads forrobotics application.

Electroadhesion for soft adhesive pads and robotics: theory and numerical results