Multi-Modal Pneumatic Actuator for Twisting, Extension, and Bending

Development of a Pneumatic Module for Reconfigurable Soft Robots

“…and Nanotechnology (ASPEN 2022) 15-18 November 2022, Singapore. Edited by Nai Mui Ling Sharon and A. Senthil Kumar modules, 14 soft vacuum actuator modules have several advantages. First, the soft chambers will only shrink, thus there is no extra space required upon activation.…”

Rehabilitation of the Human Bone-Muscle System

“…For example, walking on a floor surface rather than on a treadmill, walking at different speeds and for longer distances or times increase TVC recruitment and variability between subjects [87,88]. TVC during walking has been studied in patients with stroke [54,81,[89][90][91][92][93], and in the case of CP patients [77,81,[94][95][96][97][98][99].…”

“…), while only a few of them have been widely addressed to produce soft actuators. In literature, it is frequent to find examples of inflatable fluidic actuators [95][96][97][98] and vacuum-powered actuators [44,92,99] mainly built via casting or injection molding. Generally, in both approaches, due to the shape complexity of vacuum actuators, articulated molds, and multiple steps are required.…”

“…With the aforementioned procedures in molding fabrication, Balak et al developed a vacuum-powered omnidirectional soft robotic actuator (OSRA) [99]. A two-step molding process was employed.…”

Characterization of bending balloon actuators

“…Classification of soft actuators and design strategies to achieve different types of actuations have been reviewed in detail ( Gorissen et al, 2017 ; Pagoli et al, 2021 ; Xavier et al, 2022 ). Balloon actuators are designed to undergo various movements such as expansion, contraction, twisting, and bending ( Fujiwara et al, 2009 ; Marchese et al, 2015 ; Schaffner et al, 2018 ; Balak and Mazumdar, 2020 ). All of these motions are used at varying extents to endow soft robots with the desired actuation where the type of motion is largely controlled by architectural/geometrical features.…”