Omnidirectional Soft Robot Platform with Flexible Actuators for Medical Assistive Device
| Autor: | Koichi Suzumori, Shuichi Wakimoto, Takefumi Kanda, Mohamed Najib Ribuan |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0209 industrial biotechnology
Engineering business.industry Mechanical Engineering 02 engineering and technology X ray examination Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 03 medical and health sciences 020901 industrial engineering & automation 0302 clinical medicine 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Robot Assistive device Omnidirectional antenna Actuator business Simulation |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Automation Technology (IJAT). 10(No. 4):494-502 |
| Popis: | This manuscript explains the employment of flexible actuators to act as a soft robot and transporting agent to assist medical X-ray examinations. Although soft robots from silicone material can be transparence and a human compliance used as medical assistive devices, soft robots have some problems: they tend to be sluggish, have long and imprecise gait trajectories, and need their control parameters to be adjusted for motion diversion. A soft robot with omnidirectional locomotion has been created, one that has a combination of pneumatic rubber legs that form a soft robot platform and an associated hardware setup. Tests have confirmed its omnidirectional locomotion ability; it has a maximum speed of 6.90 mm/s in forward locomotion and a maximum payload of 70 g. These features indicate that the robot can be used as a medical assistive device for fluoroscopy examinations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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