Study of the effect of temperature on the positioning accuracy of the pneumatic muscles
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2017 The article concerns experimental studies of the effect of temperature on the positioning accuracy of pneumatic muscles. It presents results of experimental studies in the form of thermal images from thermal imaging camera.
Laski Pawel Andrzej +8 more
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Modeling and System Integration for a Thin Pneumatic Rubber 3-DOF Actuator
Actuators, 2019 Recently, soft actuators have been getting increased attention within various fields. The actuators are composed of flexible materials and driven by pneumatic pressure. A thin pneumatic rubber actuator generating 3 degrees of freedom motion, called 3-DOF
Shuhei Kawamura +4 more
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Design and control of hybrid actuation lower limb exoskeleton
Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2015 In this article, two types of actuators are applied for a lower limb exoskeleton. They are DC motors with the harmonic drive and the pneumatic artificial muscles.
Hipolito Aguilar-Sierra +3 more
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Hyperbaric Vacuum‐Based Artificial Muscles for High‐Performance Actuation
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023 Existing pneumatic artificial muscles generally rely on the use of either positive or negative pressure for actuation with each having their own advantages and disadvantages.
Altair Coutinho +4 more
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Multifilament pneumatic artificial muscles to mimic the human neck [PDF]
, 2017 Pneumatic Artificial Muscles (PAMs) are actuators that resemble human muscles, and offer an attractive performance in various aspects including robustness, simplicity, high specific power and high force for a given volume.
’Athif Mohd Faudzi, A +9 more
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Pulse width modulation modeling for efficient pneumatic artificial muscle control
Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2019 The aim of the article is to analyze the properties of artificial muscle system and effectiveness evaluation of the application of pulse width modulation in terms of improving the dynamic properties.
Miroslav Rimar +6 more
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Powered Upper Limb Orthosis Actuation System Based on Pneumatic Artificial Muscles
, 2018 The actuation system of a powered upper limb orthosis is studied in the work. To create natural safety in the mutual “man-robot” interaction, an actuation system based on pneumatic artificial muscles (PAM) is selected.
Mihail Tsveov +3 more
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Experimental investigation of characteristics of pneumatic artificial muscles
, 2010 The characteristics of pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) make them very interesting for the development of robotic and prosthesis applications. The McKibben muscle is the most popular and is made commercially available by different companies.
Véha, Antal +3 more
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Mechatronic Design of a Planar Parallel Robot Actuated by Pneumatic Artificial Muscles
, 2010 The pneumatic actuation is widely used in robotics. The actuators based on pneumatic artificial muscles are unconventional actuation systems which use the shortening by increase of the volume property which generate an axial force.
Vistrian Măties +2 more
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Novel biocompatible transversal pneumatic artificial muscles made of PDMS/PET satin composite
, 2016 In this study novel transversal pneumatic artificial muscles (TPAM), made from composite – poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) matrix membrane and poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) satin reinforcement, are presented.
Koter, K. +4 more
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