Development of Intelligent McKibben actuator with built-in soft conductive rubber sensor

Digest of Technical Papers - International Conference on Solid State Sensors and Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS '05

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 745-748

  Wakimoto, Shuichi ^a   Suzumori, Koichi ^a   Kanda, Takefumi ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Intelligent actuator; McKibben actuator; Soft mechanism; Soft sensor

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT ACTUATOR; MCKIBBEN ACTUATOR; SOFT MECHANISM; SOFT SENSOR;

INTELLIGENT CONTROL; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; RUBBER; SENSORS; SERVOMECHANISMS;

ELECTROSTATIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 27544445656     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SENSOR.2005.1496524     Document Type: Conference Paper

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