Development of artificial muscle actuator reinforced by Kevlar fiber

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 950-954

  Saga, Norihiko ^a   Nakamura, Taro ^a   Uehara, Junichi ^b   Iwade, Takashi ^b  

^a AKITA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Toray Engineering Company   (Japan)

Author keywords

Pneumatic actuator; Response characteristic; Rubber artificial muscle; Shrinkage characteristic

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ARAMID FIBERS; ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; MECHANICAL ACTUATORS; MUSCLE; ROBOTICS; SILICONES;

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE ACTUATOR; EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION; HIGH INTENSITY; MECHANICAL LOSS; RESPONSE CHARACTERISTIC; RUBBER ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; SHRINKAGE CHARACTERISTIC;

PNEUMATIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 36349033503     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIT.2002.1189297     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (2)

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2. D. Cai and H. Yamaura, "A robust controller for a manipulator driven by artificial muscle actuator", Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, Dearborn, MI, pp. 540-545, 1996.