TY - GEN
T1 - Proposal of pneumatic rubber muscles with Shape-Memory Polymer reinforcement fibers realizing desirable motion
AU - Maeda, Satoshi
AU - Wakimoto, Shuichi
AU - Yahara, Shigeyoshi
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(JSPS), KAKENHI Grant Number 26420199 and 26249028
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Pneumatic rubber actuators have advantages, light weigh, low cost, high safety and so on. Most of them have reinforcement fibers in their rubber body to realize anisotropic deformation for desirable motion when pneumatic pressure is applied. Once the actuator is fabricated, its motion type, bending, contracting, or extending, is determined uniquely. In this study, Shape Memory Polymer (SMP) fibers are utilized as reinforcement fibers for pneumatic rubber actuators. Owing to function of SMP, shape of the actuators can be varied, then the motion of the actuator can be changed easily. In this report, we focuse on two kinds of pneumatic rubber artificial muscles, one is a straight fiber type muscle and the other is a McKibben type muscle, they generate linear motion in axial direction. SMP fibers are embedded in these artificial muscles as reinforcement fibers, then by changing its shape by SMP, these realize not only simple linear motion but also torsional motion or extensional-flexional motion.
AB - Pneumatic rubber actuators have advantages, light weigh, low cost, high safety and so on. Most of them have reinforcement fibers in their rubber body to realize anisotropic deformation for desirable motion when pneumatic pressure is applied. Once the actuator is fabricated, its motion type, bending, contracting, or extending, is determined uniquely. In this study, Shape Memory Polymer (SMP) fibers are utilized as reinforcement fibers for pneumatic rubber actuators. Owing to function of SMP, shape of the actuators can be varied, then the motion of the actuator can be changed easily. In this report, we focuse on two kinds of pneumatic rubber artificial muscles, one is a straight fiber type muscle and the other is a McKibben type muscle, they generate linear motion in axial direction. SMP fibers are embedded in these artificial muscles as reinforcement fibers, then by changing its shape by SMP, these realize not only simple linear motion but also torsional motion or extensional-flexional motion.
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U2 - 10.1109/ROBIO.2016.7866492
DO - 10.1109/ROBIO.2016.7866492
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85016836079
T3 - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2016
SP - 1221
EP - 1226
BT - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2016
Y2 - 3 December 2016 through 7 December 2016
ER -