Presentation of textile pneumatic muscle prototypes applied in an upper limb active suit experimental model
| Autor: | Guido Belforte, Gabriella Eula, Alexandre Ivanov, Terenziano Raparelli, Silvia Alessandra Sirolli |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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010407 polymers
0209 industrial biotechnology Engineering Polymers and Plastics Materials Science (miscellaneous) 02 engineering and technology Soft rehabilitation devices for upper limbs 01 natural sciences Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 020901 industrial engineering & automation medicine Soft wearable devices Simulation ComputingMethodologies_COMPUTERGRAPHICS Experimental model business.industry Stiffness Active suits for upper limbs Innovative textile pneumatic muscles Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) Soft materials 0104 chemical sciences medicine.symptom General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Actuator Upper limb rehabilitation business |
| Popis: | This paper presents some prototypes of textile pneumatic muscles developed at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (DIMEAS) of the Politecnico di Torino. As an application, they are intended to be included in an ‘active suit’ useful for upper limb rehabilitation. They were realized with textile and soft materials in order to guarantee suitable wearability, confort, low weight, small dimensions as required to actuators used in active suits. This paper illustrated the experimental tests carried on these pneumatic muscles prototypes, a theoretical model from literature here applied to these muscles in order to calculate their stiffness, a preliminary active suit prototype for upper limbs rehabilitation purpose. The results obtained, both in terms of contraction and force developed with these prototypes, are highly satisfactory and the preliminary prototype of active suit realized for upper limbs works properly. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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