ASSEMBLY LINES USING PNEUMATICALLY- DRIVEN MANIPULATORS

Additively Manufactured Pneumatically Driven Skin Electrodes

Telemedicine focuses on improving the quality of health care, particularly in out-of-hospital settings. One of the most important applications is the continuous remote monitoring of vital parameters. Long-term monitoring of biopotentials requires skin-electrodes. State-of-the-art electrodes such as Ag/AgCl wet electrodes lead, especially during long-term application, to complications, e.g., ski...

Rotary Actuators Based on Pneumatically Driven Elastomeric Structures.

Unique elastomeric rotary actuators based on pneumatically driven peristaltic motion are demonstrated. Using silicone-based wheels, these motors enable a new class of soft locomotion not found in nature, which is capable of withstanding impact, traversing irregular terrain, and operating in water. For soft robotics, this work marks progress toward providing torque without bending actuators.

Modeling and Control of a Pneumatically Driven Stewart Platform

Electrically driven Stewart platforms are used in the field of machine tooling and robotics, where very accurate positions have to be reached associated with heavy loads. In this paper we present a pneumatically driven Stewart platform powered by fluidic air muscles. Due to the elasticity of the muscles and air as driving medium, the robot is predestined for applications where compliance plays ...

Using ADAMS to Model Cable Driven Hyper-Redundant Flexible Manipulators

This paper outlines the current state of the virtual prototyping program using ADAMS under development at GreyPilgrim Incorporated. This program is being developed in order to provide analysis in the mechanical design of cable driven hyperredundant flexible manipulators, referred to as EMMAs (Easily Manipulated Mechanical Arms). A diagram of a typical EMMA manipulator can be seen in Figure 1 be...

Gait Training using Pneumatically Actuated Robot System