Novel Design and Position Control Strategy of a Soft Robot Arm

This article presents a novel design of a continuum arm, which has the ability to extend and bend efficiently. Numerous designs and experiments have been done to different dimensions on both types of McKibben pneumatic muscle actuators (PMA) in order to study their performances. The contraction and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alaa Al-Ibadi, Samia Nefti-Meziani, Steve Davis, Theo Theodoridis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-11-01
Series:Robotics
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2218-6581/7/4/72