Omnidirectional soft pneumatic actuators: a design and optimization framework.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) play a pivotal role in soft robotics due to their unique characteristics of compliance, flexibility, and adaptability. There are plenty of approaches that examine the modeling parameters of SPAs, aiming to optimize their design and, thus, achieve the most advantageous responses. Current optimization methods applied to SPAs are usually performed individually for each design parameter without considering the simultaneous effect all parameters can have on the output performance. This modeling shortcoming is essential to be addressed since customized SPAs are used in a variety of applications, each with different output requirements.

Methods

This study provides a generalized design optimization framework for modeling the SPA performan

SUBMITTER: Moutousi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11419958 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature