In biomedical application, conventional hard robots have been widely used for a long time. However, when they come in contact with human body especially for rehabilitation \purposes, the hard and stuff nature of the robots have received a lot of drawbacks as they interfere with movement. Recently, soft robots are drawing attention due to their high customizability and compliance, especially soft actuators. In this paper, we present a soft pneumatic bending actuator and characterize the performance of the actuator such as radius of curvature and force output during actuation. The characterization was done by a simple measurement system that we developed. This work serves as a guideline for designing soft bending actuators with application-specific requirements, for example, soft exoskeleton for rehabilitation.
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Yap, H. K., Goh, J. C. H., & Yeow, R. C. H. (2015). Design and characterization of soft actuator for hand rehabilitation application. In IFMBE Proceedings (Vol. 45, pp. 367–370). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11128-5_92
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