Implantable pneumatically actuated microsystem for renal pressure-mediated transfection in mice.

Precise Control of the Piston Position and the Pressure of Cylinder Chambers for the Pneumatically Actuated Leg

In the pneumatically actuated leg control system, precise control of the piston position and the pressure of cylinder chambers is a tricky problem. In this paper, a new control scheme is introduced, in which the gas internal energy of the cylinder’s two chambers is used as the set point for PD controller. The proposed control scheme is essential to control the piston position and the chamber pr...

A PNEUMATICALLY ACTUATED BRACE DESIGNED FOR UPPER EXTREMITY STROKE REHABILITATION by CAREY REID

Gait Training using Pneumatically Actuated Robot System

Novel Design of a Soft Lightweight Pneumatic Continuum Robot Arm with Decoupled Variable Stiffness and Positioning

Soft robot arms possess unique capabilities when it comes to adaptability, flexibility, and dexterity. In addition, soft systems that are pneumatically actuated can claim high power-to-weight ratio. One of the main drawbacks of pneumatically actuated soft arms is that their stiffness cannot be varied independently from their end-effector position in space. The novel robot arm physical design pr...

Liver suction-mediated transfection in mice using a pressure-controlled computer system.

We previously developed an in vivo tissue suction-mediated transfection method (denoted as the tissue suction method) for naked nucleic acids, such as plasmid DNA (pDNA) and small interfering RNA (siRNA), in mice. However, it remains unclear whether the suction pressure conditions affect the results of this method. Therefore, in the present study, we assembled a computer system to control the s...