A New Fabrication Method for Soft Pneumatic Actuators based on Paraffin

Fengze Lyu; Maoxun Li; Jin Guo; Shuxiang Guo

doi:10.1109/ICMA54519.2022.9856179

A New Fabrication Method for Soft Pneumatic Actuators based on Paraffin

Fengze Lyu, Maoxun Li, Jin Guo^*, Shuxiang Guo

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School of Medical and Technology

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2022 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2022
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	340-344
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665408523
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA54519.2022.9856179
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	19th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2022 - Guilin, Guangxi, China Duration: 7 Aug 2022 → 10 Aug 2022

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Name	2022 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2022

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Conference	19th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2022
Country/Territory	China
City	Guilin, Guangxi
Period	7/08/22 → 10/08/22

Keywords

modularization
soft pneumatic actuators
soft robots
wax loss casting method

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Lyu, F., Li, M., Guo, J., & Guo, S. (2022). A New Fabrication Method for Soft Pneumatic Actuators based on Paraffin. In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2022 (pp. 340-344). (2022 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2022). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA54519.2022.9856179

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Lyu, F, Li, M, Guo, J & Guo, S 2022, A New Fabrication Method for Soft Pneumatic Actuators based on Paraffin. in 2022 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2022. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2022, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 340-344, 19th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2022, Guilin, Guangxi, China, 7/08/22. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA54519.2022.9856179

A New Fabrication Method for Soft Pneumatic Actuators based on Paraffin. / Lyu, Fengze; Li, Maoxun; Guo, Jin et al.
2022 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022. p. 340-344 (2022 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2022).

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