Design of soft multi-material pneumatic actuators based on principal strain field

As a key component of soft robots, soft actuators are responsible for producing motion. There has been continuous research on searching for efficient and systematical design tools to accommodate various applications of soft actuators. In this paper, a design method using principal strain field to ac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Longwei Ding, Ning Dai, Xiaoming Mu, Shaohui Xie, Xu Fan, Dawei Li, Xiaosheng Cheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-11-01
Series:Materials & Design
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264127519304381