Design and Demonstration of Hingeless Pneumatic Actuators Inspired by Plants.

ABSTRACT: Soft robots have often been proposed for medical applications, creating human-friendly machines, and dedicated subject operation, and the pneumatic actuator is a representative example of such a robot. Plants, with their hingeless architecture, can take advantage of morphology to achieve a predetermined deformation. To improve the modes of motion, two pneumatic actuators that mimic the principles of the plants (the birds-of-paradise plant and the waterwheel plant) were designed, simulated, and tested using physical models in this study. The most common deformation pattern of the pneumatic actuator, bending deformation, was utilized and hingeless structures based on the plants were fabricated for a more complex motion of the lobes. Here, an ABP (actuator inspired by the birds-of-paradise pl

SUBMITTER: Zeng X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11506502 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature