Proposal of an extremely lightweight soft actuator using plastic films with a pleated structure

2012 19th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice, M2VIP 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 474-479

  Nishioka, Yasutaka ^a   Uesu, Megumi ^a   Tsuboi, Hisae ^a   Kawamura, Sadao ^a  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

essential safety; lightweight; pneumatic; soft actuator

Indexed keywords

BASIC CHARACTERISTICS; ESSENTIAL SAFETIES; HUMAN-FRIENDLY ROBOTS; LIGHTWEIGHT; SOFT ACTUATORS;

COMPUTER VISION; PNEUMATICS;

PNEUMATIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 84876015689     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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