3D Printed Multi-Cavity Soft Actuator with Integrated Motion and Sensing Functionalities via Bio-Inspired Interweaving Foldable Endomysium.

ABSTRACT: The human muscle bundle generates versatile movements with synchronous neurosensory, enabling human to undertake complex tasks, which inspires researches into functional integration of motions and sensing in actuators for robots. Although soft actuators have developed diverse motion capabilities utilizing the inherent compliance, the simultaneous-sensing approaches typically involve adding sensing components or embedding certain-signal-field substrates, resulting in structural complexity and discrepant deformations between the actuation parts with high-dimensional motions and the sensing parts with heterogeneous stiffnesses. Inspired by the muscle-bundle multifiber mechanism, a multicavity functional integration (McFI) approach is proposed for soft pneumatic actuators to simultaneously rea

SUBMITTER: Fang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11744560 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature