TY - GEN
T1 - Development of Intelligent McKibben actuator with built-in soft conductive rubber sensor
AU - Wakimoto, Shuichi
AU - Suzumori, Koichi
AU - Kanda, Takefumi
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - This study aims at development of Intelligent McKibben actuator, in which soft rubber displacement sensor is integrated. Recently, McKibben actuator attracts engineers because of light weight, high output power and high compliance. But in case of using it for servo control at present, the systems need encoders or potentiometers, therefore the systems tend to grow the size and to take away from compliance which is an important advantage for safe and secure mechanism. We developed soft displacement sensor and incorporated it in McKibben actuator, named it Intelligent McKibben actuator and proved its potential.
AB - This study aims at development of Intelligent McKibben actuator, in which soft rubber displacement sensor is integrated. Recently, McKibben actuator attracts engineers because of light weight, high output power and high compliance. But in case of using it for servo control at present, the systems need encoders or potentiometers, therefore the systems tend to grow the size and to take away from compliance which is an important advantage for safe and secure mechanism. We developed soft displacement sensor and incorporated it in McKibben actuator, named it Intelligent McKibben actuator and proved its potential.
KW - Intelligent actuator
KW - McKibben actuator
KW - Soft mechanism
KW - Soft sensor
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U2 - 10.1109/SENSOR.2005.1496524
DO - 10.1109/SENSOR.2005.1496524
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:27544445656
SN - 0780389948
SN - 9780780389946
T3 - Digest of Technical Papers - International Conference on Solid State Sensors and Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS '05
SP - 745
EP - 748
BT - TRANSDUCERS '05 - 13th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators and Microsystems - Digest of Technical Papers
T2 - 13th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS '05
Y2 - 5 June 2005 through 9 June 2005
ER -