Generalizable Modelling of Vacuum-Powered Soft Actuators And Its Use in Design for Mechanical Assistive Applications

In this thesis, we present a generalized modeling tool for predicting the output force profile of vacuum-powered soft actuators using a simplified geometrical approach and the principle of virtual work. Previous work has derived analytical formulas to model the force-contraction profile of specific...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gollob, Samuel Dutra
Other Authors: Roche, Ellen
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/139481