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Editorial: Materials, design, modeling and control of soft robotic artificial muscles. [PDF]

Front Robot AI, 2022
Huang X, Sabelhaus AP, Jawed MK, Jin L, Zou J, Chen Y.   +5 more
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Solar‐Driven Soft Robots

Advanced Science, 2021
Stimuli‐responsive materials have been lately employed in soft robotics enabling new classes of robots that can emulate biological systems. The untethered operation of soft materials with high power light, magnetic field, and electric field has been ...
Seyed M. Mirvakili, Arny Leroy, Douglas Sim, Evelyn N. Wang   +3 more
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Smart Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Using a Bend Sensor like a Human Muscle with a Muscle Spindle

Sensors, 2022
Shortage of labor and increased work of young people are causing problems in terms of care and welfare of a growing proportion of elderly people. This is a looming social problem because people of advanced ages are increasing.
Norihiko Saga, Kunio Shimada, Douhaku Inamori, Naoki Saito, Toshiyuki Satoh, Jun-ya Nagase   +5 more
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Mixed phase activated artificial muscle

Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing, 2018
This article presents the mixed phase as the pressure medium of hydraulic artificial muscles, which has rarely been mentioned before. Then a novel mixed phase activated artificial muscle is designed.
Wanda ZHAO, He XU, Auysakul JUTAMANEE, Mingyu HU, Chang LI, Le ZHU   +5 more
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3D Shrinking for Rapid Fabrication of Origami-Inspired Semi-Soft Pneumatic Actuators

IEEE Access, 2020
Soft actuators are an essential component of soft robots. They are also well suited for human-friendly robots due to their intrinsic safety. The advantages of origami structures have motivated the development of origami-inspired semi-soft actuators.
Abdelrahman Zaghloul, Gary M. Bone
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A Portable Real-Time Test Bench for Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

Machines, 2023
Recently, a significant amount of research has been devoted to soft robots. Artificial muscles belong to the most important components of soft robots. Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) represent the technology that comes closest to the capabilities ...
Lukas Sohlbach, Sushil Bhatta, Fernando Perez-Peña, Karsten Schmidt   +3 more
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Design of wool yarn artificial muscles of double-helix structure and application of moisture-sensing smart textiles

Xi'an Gongcheng Daxue xuebao, 2022
At present, there are some problems with fiber-based artifical mucles, such as harsh stimulation conditions, chemical toxicity, and high cost, To remove the barriers of their application in intelligent textiles, was investigated the fabrication ...
PENG Yangyang, GAO Weidong, SUN Fengxin
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Vacuum-enhanced dielectric elastomer counterpulsation for in-vivo diastolic augmentation

Materials Today Advances
Cardiac assist devices based on dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) offer a promising alternative to conventional mechanical circulatory support by providing soft and adaptive mechanical assistance.
Amine Benouhiba, Silje Ekroll Jahren, Armando Walter, Francesco Clavica, Paul Philipp Heinisch, Jürgen Hörer, Thierry Carrel, Dominik Obrist, Yoan Civet, Yves Perriard   +9 more
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A Study on the Bandwidth Characteristics of Pleated Pneumatic Artificial Muscles

Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, 2009
Pleated pneumatic artificial muscles have interesting properties that can be of considerable significance in robotics and automation. With a view to the potential use of pleated pneumatic artificial muscles as actuators for a fatigue test bench (high ...
Rino Versluys, Kristel Deckers, Michaël Van Damme, Ronald Van Ham, Gunther Steenackers, Patrick Guillaume, Dirk Lefeber   +6 more
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Artificial muscle: the human chimera is the future

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2011
Severe heart failure and cerebral stroke are broadly associated with the impairment of muscular function that conventional treatments struggle to restore.
Swiss Medical Weekly
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