Design and characterization of a peristaltic actuator inspired by esophageal swallowing

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1234-1242

  Dirven, Steven ^a   Chen, Feijiao ^b   Xu, Weiliang ^a   Bronlund, John E ^c   Allen, Jacqueline ^a   Cheng, Leo K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Actuator; characterization; peristalsis; soft bodied robot; Swallow

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; GEOMETRY; SILICONES; SPECIFICATIONS;

BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; FORCE DISTRIBUTIONS; PERISTALSIS; SKELETAL STRUCTURES; SOFT-BODIED ROBOTS; SPECIFICATION AND DESIGNS; SWALLOW;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 84900492021     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2013.2276406     Document Type: Article

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