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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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Fluid-driven origami-inspired artificial muscles [PDF]

, 2017
Artificial muscles hold promise for safe and powerful actuation for myriad common machines and robots. However, the design, fabrication, and implementation of artificial muscles are often limited by their material costs, operating principle, scalability,
Robert J. Wood, Wood, Robert J., Vogt, Daniel M., Li, Shuguang, Rus, Daniela L, Shuguang Li, Vogt, Daniel, Wood, Robert, Daniel M. Vogt, Rus, Daniela, Daniela Rus   +10 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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Static characteristics of the new artificial pneumatic muscle [PDF]

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2022
The pneumatic artificial muscles are used as driving elements of mobile, anthropomorphic, bionic and humanoid robots as well as rehabilitation and physiotherapeutic manipulators.
Takosoglu Jakub
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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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Linear Artificial Molecular Muscles [PDF]

Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2005
Two switchable, palindromically constituted bistable [3]rotaxanes have been designed and synthesized with a pair of mechanically mobile rings encircling a single dumbbell. These designs are reminiscent of a "molecular muscle" for the purposes of amplifying and harnessing molecular mechanical motions.
Liu, Yi, Flood, Amar H., Bonvallet, Paul A., Vignon, Scott A., Northrop, Brian H., Tseng, Hsian-Rong, Jeppesen, Jan O., Huang, Tony J., Brough, Branden, Baller, Marko, Magonov, Sergei, Solares, Santiago D., Goddard, William A., Ho, Chih-Ming, Stoddart, J. Fraser   +14 more
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High Energy and Power Density Peptidoglycan Muscles through Super‐Viscous Nanoconfined Water

Advanced Science, 2022
Water‐responsive (WR) materials that reversibly deform in response to humidity changes show great potential for developing muscle‐like actuators for miniature and biomimetic robotics.
Haozhen Wang, Zhi‐Lun Liu, Jianpei Lao, Sheng Zhang, Rinat Abzalimov, Tong Wang, Xi Chen   +6 more
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