Buckling Pneumatic Linear Actuators Inspired by Muscle

Yang, Dian; Verma, Mohit S.; So, Ju-Hee; Mosadegh, Bobak; Keplinger, Christoph; Lee, Benjamin; Khashai, Fatemeh; Lossner, Elton; Suo, Zhigang; Whitesides, George M.

doi:10.1002/admt.201600055

Buckling Pneumatic Linear Actuators Inspired by Muscle

Journal Article · Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Advanced Materials Technologies

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.201600055· OSTI ID:1387845

Yang, Dian ^[1]; Verma, Mohit S. ^[1]; So, Ju-Hee ^[1]; Mosadegh, Bobak ^[1]; Keplinger, Christoph ^[1]; Lee, Benjamin ^[1]; Khashai, Fatemeh ^[1]; Lossner, Elton ^[1]; Suo, Zhigang ^[1]; Whitesides, George M. ^[1]

Harvard Univ., Cambridge MA (United States)

To being, the mechanical features of biological muscles are difficult to reproduce completely in synthetic systems. A new class of soft pneumatic structures (vacuum-actuated muscle-inspired pneumatic structures) is described that combines 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.

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Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Bio-Inspired Energy Science (CBES)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0000989

OSTI ID:: 1387845

Journal Information:: Advanced Materials Technologies, Journal Name: Advanced Materials Technologies Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 1; ISSN 2365-709X

Publisher:: WileyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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