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Development of flexible ciliary actuators and their application to mobile robots

Kimura et al., 2015

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14531421529114264953
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Kimura H
Kataoka M
Higashi T
Inou N
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Journal of Aero Aqua Bio-mechanisms

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The present paper describes new flexible ciliary actuators made of thin urethane rubber, to imitate the hydraulic skeleton found in soft creatures, such as earthworms. Several trial actuators are manufactured while varying the number of fluid chambers from 1 to 3. These …
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