Driving Characteristics of Micro Artificial Muscle using Electro-conjugate Fluid
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Soft robot inspired from natural systems is one of keywords in the robotic field in last decade. Accordingly, there have been developed many types of artificial muscles including pneumatic ones, ion-exchange polymer composite ones, polymer gels, shape memory alloys, and so on. On the other hand, using the electro-conjugate fluid, which generates powerful jet flow with high voltage supply (〜 kV), we can construct a compact pressure source. In this study, authors propose a new type of micro artificial muscle (< 1 cm^3) utilizing electro-conjugate fluid. The essence of this study is to develop the micro artificial muscle integrated with micro pressure source, which enables us to construct an autonomous system and/or artificial muscle array.
