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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Pneumatic Muscle"”.
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Collaborative system and multi robots based on pneumatic muscle actuator
… To overcome the rigidity problem, a soft pneumatic muscle actuator PMA is used in this thesis to design a fully soft robot arm.The performances and the behaviours of these actuators are tested to enhance the force formula for the contraction and the extension PMAs. General length formulas …
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An Intelligent Pneumatic Muscle Actuated Exoskeleton for Robotic Gait Rehabilitation
… specific gait rehabilitation to stroke patients. Pneumatic muscles (PM) actuators were used to drive GAREX, due to their high power/force to weight ratio and intrinsic compliance. Specially, the intrinsic compliance can create a wide range of dynamic environment for control strategy development. …
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Wearable exoskeleton systems based-on pneumatic soft actuators and controlled by parallel processing
… assist and rehabilitation exoskeletons based on pneumatic soft actuators. A novel extensor-contractor pneumatic muscle has been designed and constructed. This new actuator has bidirectional action, allowing it to both extend and contract, as well as create force in both directions. A mathematical …
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Design and control of powered lower limb prostheses
… also known as above-knee) prostheses powered by pneumatic muscles, an extraordinary actuator with superb power-to-weight ratio. The first prototype incorporates powered knee and ankle joints in a volumetric profile similar to that of human leg. The unique feature is a single-acting-spring-return …
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Hardware integration of parachute guidance, navigation, and control for the Affordable Guided Airdrop System (AGAS)
… real-time controller integrated actual VertigoR, pneumatic muscle actuators (PMAs) into the MATRIX-XE environment simulation model used in the previous work to validate, analyze and improve the simulation model. A ground station utilizing the modelƦs control algorithms, a downlink of platform …
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Design and implementation of a novel lightweight soft upper limb exoskeleton using pneumatic actuator muscles
… The proposed arm consists of various bending pneumatic muscle actuators (pMA), where traditional pMA are not suitable. Testing on various pMA (traditional and bending) revealed its behaviour and the relationship between pressure, length, force, and bending angle in different setups such as …
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Modeling and Analysis of a Novel Pneumatic Artificial Muscle and Pneumatic Arm Exoskeleton
… robots can be advanced by further development of pneumatic actuators. Pneumatic actuators are a good fit for exoskeleton robots because of their light weight, small size, and flexible materials. This is because a wearable robot should be human friendly, therefore, it should be light weight, slim, …
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Lower body exoskeleton for walking gait assistance and performance augmentation using compliance controlled actuators
… The twinwearable legs are powered by 20 braided pneumatic Muscle Actuators (pMAs); a new, low mass,high power to weight and volume actuation system. In addition, the pMAs produce a muscle-likecontact, taking advantage of their inherent nature which weakens linearly as it contracts and assuch can …