Ion-exchange polymer artificial muscle and actuating system

Dominique Vial; Bertrand Tondu; Pierre Lopez; Yves Aurelle; Alain Ricard

doi:10.1117/12.237141

26 April 1996 Ion-exchange polymer artificial muscle and actuating system

Dominique Vial, Bertrand Tondu, Pierre Lopez, Yves Aurelle, Alain Ricard

Proceedings Volume 2779, 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Materials and 3rd European Conference on Smart Structures and Materials; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.237141
Event: 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Materials, 1996, Lyon, France

Abstract

Chemomechanical transformations are used to produce a mechanical force from a reversible chemical reaction in order to generate artificial muscular contraction, on the model of the biological muscle. The design and experimentation of an original artificial muscle using an ion-exchange polymer which reacts inside a soft envelope, derived from research on pneumatic artificial McKibben muscle, is presented. Then a chemomechanical actuator constituted of two artificial muscles has been conceived: first results are shown on position control in open-loop mode.

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Dominique Vial, Bertrand Tondu, Pierre Lopez, Yves Aurelle, and Alain Ricard "Ion-exchange polymer artificial muscle and actuating system", Proc. SPIE 2779, 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Materials and 3rd European Conference on Smart Structures and Materials, (26 April 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.237141

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