Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 02, 2018 - June 05, 2018
Active textile based on three strands with thin McKibben muscles is soft, lightweight, and compliant. New knitting method of the active textile enhance a performance of the active textile owing to not using the woof and loose interaction between thin McKibben muscles. Bundling or knitting thin McKibben muscles causes physical interaction between muscle fibers with their radical expansion, resulting in the increase of the muscle contraction ratio. In this paper, a structure, a method of fabrication, and the characteristics of the active textile is reported.
