Buckling Pneumatic Linear Actuators Inspired by Muscle
2016
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The mechanical features of biological muscles are difficult to reproduce completely in synthetic systems. A new class of soft pneumatic structures (vacuum-actuated muscle-inspired pneumatic structures) is described that combines actuation by negative pressure (vacuum), with cooperative buckling of beams fabricated in a slab of elastomer, to achieve motion and demonstrate many features that are similar to that of mammalian muscle.
| Author(s): | Dian Yang and Mohit S. Verma and Ju-Hee So and Bobak Mosadegh and Christoph Keplinger and Benjamin Lee and Fatemeh Khashai and Elton Lossner and Zhigang Suo and George M. Whitesides |
| Journal: | Advanced Materials Technologies |
| Volume: | 1 |
| Number (issue): | 3 |
| Pages: | 1600055 |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Month: | June |
| Department(s): | Robotic Materials |
| Bibtex Type: | Article (article) |
| Paper Type: | Journal |
| DOI: | 10.1002/admt.201600055 |
| State: | Published |
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BibTex @article{Keplinger16-AMT-LinearActuators,
title = {Buckling Pneumatic Linear Actuators Inspired by Muscle},
author = {Yang, Dian and Verma, Mohit S. and So, Ju-Hee and Mosadegh, Bobak and Keplinger, Christoph and Lee, Benjamin and Khashai, Fatemeh and Lossner, Elton and Suo, Zhigang and Whitesides, George M.},
journal = {Advanced Materials Technologies},
volume = {1},
number = {3},
pages = {1600055},
month = jun,
year = {2016},
doi = {10.1002/admt.201600055},
month_numeric = {6}
}
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