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Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing, 2023 Vertebrates achieve a high degree of flexibility and skillful performance via a musculoskeletal system consisting of multiple joints. These joints are simultaneously driven by some multi-articular muscles, which run over two or more joints and ...
Yuta ISHIKAWA +2 more
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Actuators, 2023 A soft actuator is an essential component in a soft robot that enables it to perform complex movements by combining different fundamental motion modes.
Beau Ragland, Lianjun Wu
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Fluid‐Driven High‐Performance Bionic Artificial Muscle with Adjustable Muscle Architecture
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023 High‐performance artificial muscle is always the pursuit of researchers for robotics. Herein, a bionic artificial muscle is reported called “ExoMuscle” mimicking the sarcomere in skeletal muscle with a bio‐inspired structure to contract “myofilaments ...
Disheng Xie +9 more
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Actuators, 2021 In this paper, the prototype of the assistive suit for lower limbs was developed. The prototype was based on an assist method with joint stiffness and antagonized angle control.
Seigo Kimura +6 more
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A Review on the Development of Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Actuators: Force Model and Application
Actuators, 2022 Pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) are soft and flexible linear pneumatic actuators which produce human muscle like actuation. Due to these properties, the muscle actuators have an adaptable compliance for various robotic platforms as well as medical ...
Bhaben Kalita +2 more
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Effect of Wing Corrugation on the Aerodynamic Efficiency of Two-Dimensional Flapping Wings
Applied Sciences, 2020 Many previous studies have shown that wing corrugation of an insect wing is only structurally beneficial in enhancing the wing’s bending stiffness and does not much help to improve the aerodynamic performance of flapping wings.
Thanh Tien Dao +3 more
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Development and Evaluation of body weight reducing walker driven by pneumatic artificial muscle
Nihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu, 2023 This paper describes a body weight reducing walking support system using pneumatic artificial muscles. The user of the system walks while sitting on a saddle. The saddle supports the weight of the upper body and reduces the load on the lower limbs.
Naoki SAITO +3 more
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Dielectric Elastomer Actuator for Soft Robotics Applications and Challenges
Applied Sciences, 2020 This paper reviews state-of-the-art dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) and their future perspectives as soft actuators which have recently been considered as a key power generation component for soft robots.
Jung-Hwan Youn +6 more
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Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 A rapidly growing field of aquatic bio-inspired soft robotics takes advantage of the underwater animals’ bio-mechanisms, where its applications are foreseen in a vast domain such as underwater exploration, environmental monitoring, search and rescue, oil-
Sunil Kumar Rajendran, Feitian Zhang
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Review on Improvement, Modeling, and Application of Ionic Polymer Metal Composite Artificial Muscle
Journal of Bionic Engineering, 2022 Recently, researchers have concentrated on studying ionic polymer metal composite (IPMC) artificial muscle, which has numerous advantages including a relatively large strain under low input voltage, flexibility, high response, low noise, light weight ...
Qing-song He +8 more
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