{"id":95,"date":"2018-06-28T17:35:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T17:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localhost\/rome\/?page_id=95"},"modified":"2018-07-26T11:04:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T16:04:36","slug":"soft-actuator-modelling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rome.cdm.depaul.edu\/soft-actuator-modelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft Actuator Modelling"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Soft Actuator Modelling<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Pneumatic muscle actuators (PMA) are soft, compliant, cheap and human-safe actuators that find numerous applications of soft robots ranging from manipulators to legged locomotion. However, the dynamic models of PMAs were complex and had no accurate hysteresis models. I proposed a new hysteresis model to enable direct pressure control of PMA.<\/span><\/p>

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Many continuum robots have been developed to imitate biological structures such as elephant trunks, squid arms, octopus arms, and lizard tongues. The designs and actuator configurations of these robots vary from: high degree of freedom (DOF) serial links to tendon based, and artificial muscle actuator based robots. Of these, the robots based on variable length pneumatic muscle actuators (PMA) exhibit strong potential for practical continuum robotic arms offering scalability, inherent compliance, smooth bending, and extensibility\/contractility. With these characteristics, they outperform conventional rigid body robots in tasks such as human friendly interactions and whole arm grasping of objects of various shapes and sizes. In order to model PMA based continuum arms, a proper PMA model is required.<\/span><\/p>

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Developed in 1950s, PMAs have been subjected to extensive investigations resulting in different static and dynamic models varying of complexity. However, previous PMA models rely on many parameters that are difficult to quantify, subject to deviation in dynamic conditions, and pose control problems. In addition, many PMA models only considered the static hysteric behavior observed in PMA extension-contraction cycles. Further, all there models were intended for PMAs actuating in contraction mode. Thus, there is a need for a new PMA model that is simpler, accounts for dynamic hysteresis, models PMAs in both extending and contracting mode, and is suitable for dynamic modeling and control. Further, the existing planer or single section continuum arm models did not consider the PMA actuator dynamics in their models hence none were experimentally validated.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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PMAs are a cheap and versatile breed of actuators that can be fabricated quickly in-house. They have found their way into many application areas, particularly in continuum arms. They are simple, clean, safe to make, have high power\/weight ratio, and operate at low pressures. The following figure shows a PMA in its experimental setup along with VICON track markers for accurate (sub-millimeter level) displacement measurement.<\/span><\/p>

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The PMA can be approximated as a linear single DOF system and the schematic is shown in figure 2. The Lagrangian formulation is used to derive the governing equation and for modeling hysteresis, the classical Bouc-Wen model is used.<\/span><\/p>

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The simulated and experimental result comparison are given below. The images show a good agreement between the simulated and the dynamic system output.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Research Members: Isuru Godage, David T. Branson, Emanuele Guglielmino, and Darwin G. Caldwell.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Publications<\/u><\/b><\/span><\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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  1. Isuru S Godage, David T Branson, Emanuele Guglielmino et al. (2012) <\/span>Pneumatic Muscle Actuated Continuum Arms : Modeling and Experimental Assessment<\/span><\/a>, 4980-4985. In <\/span>IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).<\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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