Abstract
Thin pneumatic artificial muscles are expected to be applied to make active fabric products like clothes and orthoses using their thin features. It is known that the peculiarities of cloth differ according to the conditions of weaving and knitting. In this paper, a preliminary experiment of measuring characteristics' differences in 4 patterns of textile woven (plain weaving) by thin artificial muscle and wool was conducted. The result indicated that the textile woven by the smaller (2 [mm], 7 [mm]) distance of weft showed decrease in max force output and shrinkage ratio compared to the none-woven actuator. On the other hand, textile woven by sparse pattern (15 [mm]) showed almost resemble characteristics of the none-woven muscles.
