Feature-rich high voltage power supplies for research and development
Project Peta-pico-Voltron offers a free design of computer-controlled high voltage power supplies with detailed assembly and usage instructions. The Peta-pico-Voltron concept includes:
- printed-circuit board (PCB) design
- assembly, testing, and calibration instructions.
- A graphic user interface to control the power supply and a library of functions to integrate the power supplies in computer-controlled test beds.
Peta-pico-voltron’s power supply was designed to drive electrostatic actuators, such as dielectric elastomer actuators and zipping actuators used in soft robotics, but its field of application extends beyond soft actuators to any project that requires precise high-voltage at low current.
hvps-x: the neXt generation of high voltage power supplies
hvps-x is our current high-voltage power supply design which is actively developed and maintained. More information.
Peta-pico-Voltron in action
Peta-pico-Voltron in action: See applications of the Peta-pico-Voltron High Voltage Power supply and link to scholarly articles that use the HVPS
Journal article about Peta-pico-Voltron in HardwareX: Peta-pico-Voltron: An open-source high voltage power supply