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High Fidelity Dynamic Modeling And Nonlinear Control Of Fluidic Artificial Muscles, Jonathon Earl Slightam
High Fidelity Dynamic Modeling And Nonlinear Control Of Fluidic Artificial Muscles, Jonathon Earl Slightam
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A fluidic artificial muscle is a type of soft actuator. Soft actuators transmit power with elastic or hyper-elastic bladders that are deformed with a pressurized fluid. In a fluidic artificial muscle a rubber tube is encompassed by a helical fiber braid with caps on both ends. One of the end caps has an orifice, allowing the control of fluid flow in and out of the device. As the actuator is pressurized, the rubber tube expands radially and is constrained by the helical fiber braid. This constraint results in a contractile motion similar to that of biological muscles. Although artificial muscles …