Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 05, 2019 - June 08, 2019
Pneumatic artificial muscles have unique advantages such as high compliance, high ratio of power to mass, and easy manufacturing. Especially, the flexibility contributes to compose novel mechanisms. The flexibility of pneumatic artificial muscles releases us from the spatially strict design required for rigid mechanical elements: it could actualize compact mechanisms made of a fewer parts. The authors propose to manufacture the machine with uniformed structure of simple parts. We fabricated novel soft mechanisms that are composed of only woven strings and thin McKibben muscles. The structure is uniformed; nevertheless, the forms and movements of mechanisms are diverse. In this paper, we report the experiment to reveal the bending force characteristic of the active textile.
