Development of contraction and extension artificial muscles with different braid angles and their application to stiffness changeable bending rubber mechanism by their combination

Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 582-588

  Iwata, Kazuhiro ^a   Suzumori, Koichi ^a   Wakimoto, Shuichi ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hydraulic soft actuator; McKibben actuator; Stiffness change

Indexed keywords

HYDRAULIC ACTUATORS; STIFFNESS;

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; BENDING ACTUATORS; BENDING MOTION; HIGH HYDRAULIC PRESSURE; HYDRAULIC SOFT ACTUATORS; MCKIBBEN ACTUATORS; NONLINEAR FINITE ELEMENT METHOD ANALYSIS; STIFFNESS CHANGES;

MUSCLE;

EID: 84856288689     PISSN: 09153942     EISSN: 18838049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20965/jrm.2011.p0582     Document Type: Article

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