1A2-M03 PVCゲルを用いた人工筋肉の創製 : 収縮時における発生力の増大

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A poly vinyl chloride (PVC) gel actuator shows great potential for use as an artificial muscle because of such positive characteristics as movement in the air, large deformation, and being lightweight. We have proposed the structure of a contraction type actuator to construct an artificial muscle [4]-[6]. However, this actuator could not perform contraction force. In this study, we propose the structure of the multilayer PVC gel actuator to generate contraction force and evaluate its characteristics. The experimental results showed that the contraction rate of the proposed actuator was about 4%, and the contraction force was 1.9kPa. The characteristics of the PVC gel actuator are very effective for constructing an artificial muscle.
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2009-05-25