Buckling Pneumatic Linear Actuators Inspired by Muscle

By Dian Yang, M. Verma, Ju‐Hee So, Bobak Mosadegh, Christoph Keplinger, Benjamin Lee, Fatemeh Khashai, E. Lossner, Zhigang Suo, George M. Whitesides. 2016

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The mechanical features characteristics of biological muscles are difficult to reproduce completely in synthetic systems. We describes a new class of soft pneumatic structures (VAMPs, or vacuum-actuated muscle-inspired pneumatic structures) that combine actuation by negative pressure (vacuum), with cooperative buckling of beams fabricated in a slab of elastomer, to achieve motion and demonstrate many features that are similar to that of mammalian muscle.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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