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Lightweight Pneumatically Elastic Backbone Structure with Modular Construction and Nonlinear Interaction for Soft Actuators
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DOI：10.1089/soro.2021.0179.png)
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There has been a growing need for soft robots operating various force-sensitive tasks due to their environmental adaptability, satisfactory controllability, and nonlinear mobility unique from rigid robots. It is of desire to further study the system instability and strongly nonlinear interaction phenomenon that are the main influence factors to the actuations of lightweight soft actuators. In this study, we present a design principle on lightweight pneumatically elastic backbone structure (PEBS) with the modular construction for soft actuators, which contains a backbone printed as one piece and a common strip balloon. We build a prototype of a lightweight (<80 g) soft actuator, which can perform bending motions with satisfactory output forces (similar to 20 times self-weight). Experiments are conducted on the bending effects generated by interactions between the hyperelastic inner balloon and the elastic backbone. We investigated the nonlinear interaction and system instability experimentally, numerically, and parametrically. To overcome them, we further derived a theoretical nonlinear model and a numerical model. Satisfactory agreements are obtained between the numerical, theoretical, and experimental results. The accuracy of the numerical model is fully validated. Parametric studies are conducted on the backbone geometry and stiffness, balloon stiffness, thickness, and diameter. The accurate controllability, operation safety, modularization ability, and collaborative ability of the PEBS are validated by designing PEBS into a soft laryngoscope, a modularized PEBS library for a robotic arm, and a PEBS system that can operate remote surgery. The reported work provides a further applicability potential of soft robotics studies.
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soft robots
biomedical engineering
nonlinear interactions
numerical simulation
pneumatic actuation
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