Abstract
The fluidic muscle cylinder consists of an air bellows tube, flanges and lock nuts. It's fbatures are softness of materialand motion, simplicity of structure, low production cost and high power efficiency. Recently, unlikely the pneumaticcylinder, the fluidic muscle cylinder without air leakage, stick slip, friction, and seal was developed as a new conceptactuator. In this study, we carried out the finite element modeling and analysis about the main design variables such ascontraction ration and force, diameter increment of fluidic muscle cylinder. On the basis of finite element analysis, theprototype of fluidic muscle cylinder was manufactured and tested. Finally, we compared the results between the test andthe finite element analysis.
