Development and Application of High Contractile Pneumatic Artificial Muscle

Daisuke Sasaki; Toshiro Noritsugu; Masahiro Takaiwa

doi:10.20965/ijat.2011.p0531

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IJAT Vol.5 No.4 pp. 531-537

doi: 10.20965/ijat.2011.p0531

(2011)

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Development and Application of High Contractile Pneumatic Artificial Muscle

Daisuke Sasaki, Toshiro Noritsugu, and Masahiro Takaiwa

Graduate School of Natural Science of Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushimanaka, Kita-Ku, Okayama 700-8530, Japan

Received:

January 31, 2011

Accepted:

March 29, 2011

Published:

July 5, 2011

Keywords:

pneumatic, artificial muscle, wearable robot, power assist wear

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop a pneumatic artificial muscle with a high contractile rate to realize a required performance in a power assist device. The developed muscle is constructed with two nylon bands and an expansion unit. The generated force from the expansion unit is converted to a contraction force by the nylon band. This artificial muscle can be realized the high contractile rate. In this paper, the structure and the characteristics of the developed muscle are described, and then the application of this artificial muscle is discussed.

Cite this article as:

D. Sasaki, T. Noritsugu, and M. Takaiwa, “Development and Application of High Contractile Pneumatic Artificial Muscle,” Int. J. Automation Technol., Vol.5, No.4, pp. 531-537, 2011.

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