Artificial Muscles
Design of EMG Acquisition Circuit to Control an Antagonistic Mechanism Actuated by Pneumatic Artificial Muscles PAMs
... internal diameter is 10 mm. Only one data acquisition component is employed to collect the feedback from angular position generated by this APMM, therefore a rotary encoder sensor (OPKON PRID 50 ARS LTP 1000 Z V2) is ...
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Sleeve Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Antagonistically Actuated Joints
... Safely removing the barriers between man and machine, to facilitate collaborative operation has been a research goal in several areas in recent years. For systems which require the application of large forces, ...
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Optimal integration of pneumatic artificial muscles with vacuum jammed surfaces to characterise a novel reconfigurable moulding system
... Mckibben muscles, also known as pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) are recognised for their high strength to weight ratio, ease of manufacture and low ...
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Adaptive Self‐Tuning Fuzzy Controller for a Soft Rehabilitation Machine Actuated by Pneumatic Artificial Muscles
... human muscles. It has been suggested that pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) can contribute to creating more comfortable de- vices for interfacing with human limb ...
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High performance electrochemical and electrothermal artificial muscles from twist-spun carbon nanotube yarn
... tensile artificial muscles are described, which utilize thermally- or electrochemically- induced volume changes of twist-spun, guest-filled, carbon nanotube (CNT) ...these artificial muscles ...
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The design and mathematical modelling of novel extensor bending pneumatic artificial muscles (EBPAMs) for soft exoskeletons
... McKibben artificial muscles by reinforcing one side to prevent ...pneumatic artificial muscle determines the output force as a function of the input ...of muscles effort needed to perform a ...
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Efficiency and Function: Design and Analysis of Smart Actuators and Systems using Fluidic Artificial Muscles.
... Fluidic artificial muscles have the potential for a wide range of uses; from injury rehabilitation to high- powered hydraulic ...fluidic artificial muscle actuated climbing robot to establish a ...
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Design and Analysis of an Orderly Recruitment Valve for Bio-inspired Fluidic Artificial Muscles.
... fluidic artificial muscle (FAM) systems. Recently artificial muscles are gaining popularity due to their increased efficiency by employing strategies such as variable recruitment ...
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Bio-inspired Online Variable Recruitment Control of Fluidic Artificial Muscles.
... McKibben muscles are often referred to as fluidic artificial muscles (FAMs) due to a variety of biological similarities. Biological musculature and FAMs exhibit force-strain dependence and geometric ...
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Pneumatic artificial muscles for human friendly mobile service robots
... iv Developing robotic systems which can operate in complex, human centred environments is a major challenge, but one which holds the promise of dramatically improving human living standards in several areas including ...
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Hysteresis Modeling and Compensation of Pneumatic Artificial Muscles using the Generalized Prandtl-Ishlinskii Model
... pneumatic artificial muscle (PAM) has attracted extensive attention from both industrial and academic fields due to its high power/weight ratio and significant ...
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Shape Memory Alloy Artificial Muscles for Treatments of Fecal Incontinence
... The use of shape memory alloys (SMAs) for actuators can offer the advantage of simple and compact design, owing to their large force-to-weight ratio. Usually, this ratio could be several orders larger than that of human ...
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Investigations of Design Issues Related To In-Pipe Inspection Robots
... [28] Megumi Ikeuchi, Taro Nakamura, and Dai Matsubara, Development of an In-pipe Inspection Robot for Narrow Pipes and Elbows using Pneumatic Artificial Muscles, 2012 IEEE/RSJ Internatio[r] ...
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A novel, soft, bending actuator for use in power assist and rehabilitation exoskeletons
... pneumatic muscles which have been combined with contractor pneumatic muscles to provide actuation for the ...bending artificial muscles has been ...
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Three-Dimensional Human iPSC-Derived Artificial Skeletal Muscles Model Muscular Dystrophies and Enable Multilineage Tissue Engineering
... hiPSC-Derived Artificial Skeletal Muscles Enable Disease Modeling of Skeletal Muscle Laminopathies Organoids have great potential for disease modeling and drug development, so we examined whether our ...
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A pneumatically powered knee-ankle-foot orthosis (KAFO) with myoelectric activation and inhibition
... the artificial knee extensor (black) and knee flexor (grey); the forces (N) generated by the antago- nistic artificial muscles (extensors in black and flexors in grey); and the resulting net ...
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Advanced Sensing and Control of Assistive/Rehabilitative Robots
... • An active lower limb exoskeleton for assistance and rehabilitation • Pneumatic Artificial Muscles PAM for actuation • Using control signals derived in real time from the user- Surface [r] ...
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ELECTROACTIVE POLYMERS AS ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING: A REVIEW
... natural muscles, so these polymers are also known as Artificial ...An Artificial muscle is a materials or device that exhibits a change in shape and size within a component or device and behaves like ...
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Distinguishing metabolic heat from condensation heat during muscle recovery
... the artificial muscle covered by a Teflon ...with artificial muscles, but is in other experiments with living muscle ...from artificial muscles with and without Teflon ...from ...
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Improvement of a Lightweight Power Assist Suit for Nursing Care
... In our previously developed assist suit, air compressor was used to supply the compressed air to the artificial muscles. However, in this case, caregiver’s area of activity is restricted because the assist ...
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