TY - GEN
T1 - Soft Pneumatic Actuator Inspired on Flexion-Extension Motion Trajectory of the Human Fingers
AU - Flores-Martínez, Edén
AU - Sandoval-Castro, X. Yamile
AU - Castillo-Castaneda, Eduardo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Soft robotics has been widely explored in recent years, medical engineering is one of the sciences that has taken the most advantages of this technology. The use of unconventional materials has allowed the development of highly flexible and mechanically adaptable medical devices. This paper presents the design of a soft bending actuator based on the flexion-extension motion trajectory of the human fingers. Moreover, we present the kinematic model of the actuator by the parametrization of the Denavit-Hartenberg convention and using the Euler-Bernoulli principle. The design of the actuator was based on the flexion-extension motion trajectory of fingers of an average Mexican hand, the geometry is based on chambers allowing bending motion. On the other hand, we introduce a new method to decrease the number of steps in the casting technique, we propose to use water-soluble material to create the internal geometry of the actuator, thus avoiding a subsequent assembly process, and furthermore, avoiding the misalignment that can occur in the parts that are joined during assembly. Finally, the experimental evaluation of the actuator by using machine vision is presented, the results are compared with the numerical evaluation of the kinematic model and the flexion-extension trajectory fingers.
AB - Soft robotics has been widely explored in recent years, medical engineering is one of the sciences that has taken the most advantages of this technology. The use of unconventional materials has allowed the development of highly flexible and mechanically adaptable medical devices. This paper presents the design of a soft bending actuator based on the flexion-extension motion trajectory of the human fingers. Moreover, we present the kinematic model of the actuator by the parametrization of the Denavit-Hartenberg convention and using the Euler-Bernoulli principle. The design of the actuator was based on the flexion-extension motion trajectory of fingers of an average Mexican hand, the geometry is based on chambers allowing bending motion. On the other hand, we introduce a new method to decrease the number of steps in the casting technique, we propose to use water-soluble material to create the internal geometry of the actuator, thus avoiding a subsequent assembly process, and furthermore, avoiding the misalignment that can occur in the parts that are joined during assembly. Finally, the experimental evaluation of the actuator by using machine vision is presented, the results are compared with the numerical evaluation of the kinematic model and the flexion-extension trajectory fingers.
KW - Bending
KW - Fingertip
KW - Flexion-extension trajectory
KW - Kinematic model
KW - Soft pneumatic actuator
KW - Water-soluble material
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-99826-4_14
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-99826-4_14
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:85128781575
SN - 9783030998257
T3 - Mechanisms and Machine Science
SP - 168
EP - 177
BT - Proceedings of the 2022 USCToMM Symposium on Mechanical Systems and Robotics
A2 - Larochelle, Pierre
A2 - McCarthy, J. Michael
PB - Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
T2 - 2nd USCToMM Symposium on Mechanical Systems and Robotics, USCToMM MSR 2022
Y2 - 19 May 2022 through 21 May 2022
ER -