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A Novel High-Torque Bidirectional Curl Pneumatic Muscle With Stretchable Sheath: Design and Finite Element Method Analysis

September 16, 2024 by Yuxuan Wang, Yinan Li, Jiangbei Wang, Yanqiong Fei, Jianfeng Wan

This article presents design and modeling of a novel high-torque bidirectional curl pneumatic artificial muscle (BCPAM) consisting of two identical inflatable semielliptic cylindrical chambers in parallel and symmetric arrangement. Each chamber is enclosed by a hyperelastic silicone (polymer) bladder encircled by an anisotropic elastic fabric sheath in circumference and … [Read more...] about A Novel High-Torque Bidirectional Curl Pneumatic Muscle With Stretchable Sheath: Design and Finite Element Method Analysis

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A Novel High-Torque Bidirectional Curl Pneumatic Muscle With Stretchable Sheath: Design and Finite Element Method Analysis

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