A Magnetorheological Fluid-based Damper Towards Increased Biomimetism in Soft Robotic Actuators
Ravesh Sukhnandan,Kevin Dai,Victoria Webster–Wood,Ravesh Sukhnandan,Kevin Dai,Victoria Webster–Wood
Damping properties in biological muscle are crit-ical for absorbing shock, maintaining posture, and positioning limbs and appendages. When creating biomimetic robots, the ability to replicate the dynamics of biological muscle is neces-sary to reproduce behaviors seen in an animal model. However, the damping properties of existing soft artificial muscles are difficult to predict and tune to match s...
