TY - GEN
T1 - Development of pneumatic rubber actuator of 400μm in diameter generating bi-directional bending motion
AU - Yoshioka, R.
AU - Wakimoto, S.
AU - Suzumori, K.
AU - Ishikawa, Y.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/4/20
Y1 - 2014/4/20
N2 - Recently micro soft actuators have been developed actively, because they have possibility to be applied to micro hands, catheters, and so on. Especially pneumatic rubber actuators have high potential because of simple structure and non-electrical drive leading high safety. In our previous research, the pneumatic rubber actuator that can bend into two directions by positive and negative pneumatic pressures have been developed. This paper reports miniaturization of the bending rubber actuator. The actuator is downsized from 2.0mm to 400μm in diameter. By nonlinear FEM, the actuator design is optimized, then by molding method, the actuator is fabricated. Using developed actuator of 400μm in diameter, experimentally the bi-directional bending motion by positive and negative pneumatic pressures have been confirmed.
AB - Recently micro soft actuators have been developed actively, because they have possibility to be applied to micro hands, catheters, and so on. Especially pneumatic rubber actuators have high potential because of simple structure and non-electrical drive leading high safety. In our previous research, the pneumatic rubber actuator that can bend into two directions by positive and negative pneumatic pressures have been developed. This paper reports miniaturization of the bending rubber actuator. The actuator is downsized from 2.0mm to 400μm in diameter. By nonlinear FEM, the actuator design is optimized, then by molding method, the actuator is fabricated. Using developed actuator of 400μm in diameter, experimentally the bi-directional bending motion by positive and negative pneumatic pressures have been confirmed.
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U2 - 10.1109/ROBIO.2014.7090298
DO - 10.1109/ROBIO.2014.7090298
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84949928516
T3 - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE ROBIO 2014
SP - 1
EP - 6
BT - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE ROBIO 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE ROBIO 2014
Y2 - 5 December 2014 through 10 December 2014
ER -