Publication detail

Artificial Muscles: State of The Art And a New Technology

KOČIŠ, P. KNOFLÍČEK, R.

English title

Artificial Muscles: State of The Art And a New Technology

Type

Scopus Article

Language

en

Original abstract

Pneumatic artificial muscles have been known since 1930s. Their advantage is in a simple design and good specific power. However, the critical disadvantage is the requirement of an air compressor or a compressed air accumulator. This disadvantage disables the use of pneumatic artificial muscles in mobile robotics. In constrast to pneumatic artificial muscles dielectric elastomer actuators as basic units of artificial muscles are convenient for mobile robots propulsion. We investigate a new design of pneumatic artificial muscles that can be powered by the energy of electrostatic field. This paper describes the design of a new artificial muscle technology and solves a behavior under small strains.

Keywords in English

artificial muscle, pneumatic muscle, dielectric elastomer, electrostatics, actuator

Released

2017-02-01

ISSN

1805-0476

Journal

MM Science Journal

Volume

February

Number

2017

Pages from–to

1668–1673

Pages count

6

BIBTEX


@article{BUT142280,
  author="Petr {Kočiš} and Radek {Knoflíček}",
  title="Artificial Muscles: State of The Art And a New Technology",
  journal="MM Science Journal",
  year="2017",
  volume="February",
  number="2017",
  pages="1668--1673",
  doi="10.17973/MMSJ.2017\{_}02\{_}2016100",
  issn="1803-1269",
  url="http://www.mmscience.eu/content/file/archives/MM_Science_2016100.pdf"
}