TY - GEN
T1 - Micro pneumatic curling actuator - Nematode actuator -
AU - Ogura, Keiko
AU - Wakimoto, Shuichi
AU - Suzumori, Koichi
AU - Nishioka, Yasutaka
N1 - Funding Information:
VI. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This research is being funded from 2007 by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (Grant No. 19206027) as the project title “Establishment of Basic Technologies on Flexible Micro Mechanism and their Applications”.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2008 IEEE
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Micro rubber pneumatic actuators have attracted in medical and biotechnology fields, especially they have been expected for minimally invasive surgery and handling biological cells because of high safety caused by low mechanical impedance. Actually some micro rubber pneumatic actuators have been developed in several laboratories. However at present, almost no actuators could realize simple structure, easy fabrication and large displacement enough to holding objects by one actuator. In this paper, an actuator, named “Nematode Actuator”, having large deformation with simple structure is developed by nonlinear FEM (Finite Element Method), and fabrication process is simplified using rubber bonding technology with excimer lamp and machining. Nematode actuator realized remarkably large bending motion as like a nematode in two directions only one air tube using positive and negative pressure.
AB - Micro rubber pneumatic actuators have attracted in medical and biotechnology fields, especially they have been expected for minimally invasive surgery and handling biological cells because of high safety caused by low mechanical impedance. Actually some micro rubber pneumatic actuators have been developed in several laboratories. However at present, almost no actuators could realize simple structure, easy fabrication and large displacement enough to holding objects by one actuator. In this paper, an actuator, named “Nematode Actuator”, having large deformation with simple structure is developed by nonlinear FEM (Finite Element Method), and fabrication process is simplified using rubber bonding technology with excimer lamp and machining. Nematode actuator realized remarkably large bending motion as like a nematode in two directions only one air tube using positive and negative pressure.
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U2 - 10.1109/ROBIO.2009.4913047
DO - 10.1109/ROBIO.2009.4913047
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85045443421
SN - 9781424426799
T3 - 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2008
SP - 462
EP - 467
BT - 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2008
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2008
Y2 - 21 February 2009 through 26 February 2009
ER -