Design and characterization of artificial muscles from wedge-like pneumatic soft modules

Oguntosin, Victoria; Akindele, Ayoola

doi:10.1016/j.sna.2019.07.047

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“…The device has a toroid diaphragm embedded with stiffening filaments and attached at its outer edge to a ringshaped structure along with its inner edge to a shaft. Along with these classifications of the traditional PAMs, there are more advanced pneumatic muscles designed and developed in the literature [37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47]. An artificial muscle tube has been developed by Nakamura et al [38], as shown in Figure 8a, in which high-intensity glass fiber had been built into a natural latex rubber tube (Straight fibre type).…”

Section: Embedded Musclementioning

confidence: 99%

A Review on the Development of Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Actuators: Force Model and Application

2022

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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 applications. While a variety of possible actuation schemes are present, there is still a need for the development of a soft actuator that is very light-weight, compact, and flexible with high power-to-weight ratio. To achieve this, the development of the PAM actuators has become an interesting topic for many researchers. In this review, the development of the different kinds of PAM available to date are presented along with manufacturing process and the operating principle. The various force models for artificial muscle presented in the literature are broadly reviewed with the constraints. Furthermore, the applications of PAM are included and classified based on the fields of biorobotics, medicine, and industry, along with advanced medical instrumentation. Finally, the needful improvements in terms of the dynamics of the muscle are discussed for the precise control of the PAMs as per the requirements for the applications. This review will be helpful for researchers working in the field of robotics and for designers to develop new type of artificial muscle depending on the applications.

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Section: Embedded Musclementioning

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A Review on the Development of Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Actuators: Force Model and Application

2022

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“…The soft actuator was integrated with the eye tracker through the USB interface of a computer. The electronic control of the soft actuator is the same as presented in presented in previous works [2], [10], [23]. The electronic control links to a PC through a USB interface.…”

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“…Soft robots are able to manoeuvre using the infinite degrees of freedom they possess owing to their characteristic large deformations. Applications of these robots include in hazardous environments, crawling movements [ 1 ], muscle like movements [ 2 ], [ 3 ], hand [ 4 ], elbow [ 5 ] and shoulder [ 6 ] rehabilitation. An appropriate control system comprising both software and hardware components are therefore required to control these various movements experienced by soft actuators.…”

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Design of a pneumatic soft actuator controlled via eye tracking and detection

Oguntosin

Abdulkareem

2020

Heliyon

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This work describes the control of a pneumatic soft robotic actuator via eye movements. The soft robot is actuated using two supply sources: a vacuum pump and an air supply pump for both negative and positive air supply sources respectively. Two controlled states are presented: the actuation of the vacuum and air pump. Through eye positioning and tracking on the graphical user interface to actuate either pump, a control command is directed to inflate or deflate the pneumatic actuator. The potential of this application is in rehabilitation, whereby eye movements are used to control a rehabilitation-based assistive soft actuator rather than ON/OFF electronics. This is demonstrated in this work using an elbow based rehabilitation soft actuator.

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“…Currently, pneumatic rotary joints usually achieve the rotary motion through antagonistic bidirectional artificial muscles [6,7] or rotary actuators [8]. For example, Fras et al developed a pneumatic rotary actuator made of silicone rubber and reinforced with polyester fiber.…”

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Study on the Structure and Performance of an Antagonistic Pneumatic Bidirectional Rotary Joint

Liu

Sun

Geng

et al. 2021

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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An antagonistic pneumatic bidirectional rotary flexible joint was developed to improve both safety and environmental adaptability of service robots and associated human interactions. The joint comprises two semicircular rotary actuators with positive and negative symmetrical distributions and a pneumatic brake. As such, it achieves forward and reverse rotations, and its damping and braking are adjustable in real time, enabling it to maintain its position. According to the force/torque balance at the free end of the rotary actuator, the rotation angle static model was established. The relationship between the actuator rotation angle, driving torque, impedance torque, and air pressure was obtained experimentally. The brake airbag was manufactured using additive manufacturing and silicone gel casting technologies. The mathematical model of the braking torque was established next, and the model was verified through experiments. Furthermore, an experimental system was constructed to carry out the air pressure-angle, air pressure-torque, and speed response experiments without the load on the joint. The results have shown that the joint can achieve any position within ± 68.5° when the driving air pressure varies from 0 to 0.30 MPa; the time required to reach the maximum angle was 0.85 s. The joint has shown good adjustable damping characteristics. Lastly, the braking torque reached 4.21 Nm at 0.32 MPa, effectively maintaining the position.

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Design and characterization of artificial muscles from wedge-like pneumatic soft modules

Cited by 28 publications

References 10 publications

A Review on the Development of Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Actuators: Force Model and Application

A Review on the Development of Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Actuators: Force Model and Application

Design of a pneumatic soft actuator controlled via eye tracking and detection

Study on the Structure and Performance of an Antagonistic Pneumatic Bidirectional Rotary Joint

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