Development of curved type pneumatic artificial rubber muscle using shape-memory polymer

Proceedings of the SICE Annual Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1691-1695

  Takashima, Kazuto ^a,b   Noritsugu, Toshiro ^c   Rossiter, Jonathan ^b,d   Guo, Shijie ^e   Mukai, Toshiharu ^b  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e Tokai Rubber Industries Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glass transition temperature; Pneumatic rubber muscle; Shape fixity; Shape recovery; Shape memory polymer

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; GLASS; MUSCLE; PNEUMATICS; POLYMERS; REINFORCEMENT; RUBBER; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; TEMPERATURE;

BENDING MOTION; EXTERNAL FORCE; PNEUMATIC ARTIFICIAL RUBBER MUSCLE; PNEUMATIC RUBBER MUSCLES; RUBBER ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; SHAPE FIXITY; SHAPE MEMORY POLYMERS; SHAPE RECOVERY;

GLASS TRANSITION;

EID: 81255176445     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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