TY - GEN
T1 - A New Fabrication Method for Soft Pneumatic Actuators based on Paraffin
AU - Lyu, Fengze
AU - Li, Maoxun
AU - Guo, Jin
AU - Guo, Shuxiang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - compared with traditional rigid robots, the soft robots inspired by bionics have attracted extensive attention because of their inherent flexibility and safety. The motion of soft robots is mainly driven by soft actuators. However, the design and control of this kind of soft actuators is still lack of theoretical guidance. In this paper, a soft actuator structure is designed based on the idea of modularization and bellows, and the improved wax loss casting method is used to make the soft actuator. Then we build an experimental platform to test the performance of the soft actuator. The result shows the deformation of the soft actuator under different air pressure. With the increase of the internal pressure, the airbag expands obviously and the elongation increases.
AB - compared with traditional rigid robots, the soft robots inspired by bionics have attracted extensive attention because of their inherent flexibility and safety. The motion of soft robots is mainly driven by soft actuators. However, the design and control of this kind of soft actuators is still lack of theoretical guidance. In this paper, a soft actuator structure is designed based on the idea of modularization and bellows, and the improved wax loss casting method is used to make the soft actuator. Then we build an experimental platform to test the performance of the soft actuator. The result shows the deformation of the soft actuator under different air pressure. With the increase of the internal pressure, the airbag expands obviously and the elongation increases.
KW - modularization
KW - soft pneumatic actuators
KW - soft robots
KW - wax loss casting method
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85137829924&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICMA54519.2022.9856179
DO - 10.1109/ICMA54519.2022.9856179
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85137829924
T3 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2022
SP - 340
EP - 344
BT - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2022
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 19th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2022
Y2 - 7 August 2022 through 10 August 2022
ER -