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The Design and Implementation of a Single-Actuator Soft Robot Arm for Lower Back Pain Reduction

Author(s) -

Alaa Al-Ibadi

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

iraqi journal for electrical and electronic engineering

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2078-6069

pISSN - 1814-5892

DOI - 10.37917/ijeee.sceeer.3rd.4

Subject(s) - actuator , robotic arm , soft robotics , robot , soft tissue , computer science , simulation , bending , reduction (mathematics) , engineering , structural engineering , artificial intelligence , medicine , mathematics , surgery , geometry

This paper presents a simple and fast design and implementation for a soft robot arm. The proposed continuum arm has been built by a single self-bending contraction actuator (SBCA) with two-fingers soft gripper. Because of the valuable advantages of the pneumatic artificial muscle (PAM), this continuum arm provides a high degree of safety to individuals. The proposed soft robot arm has a bending behaviour of more 180° at 3.5 kg, while, its weight is 0.7 kg. Moreover, it is designed to assist the people by reducing the number of backbends and that leads to a decrease in the possibility of lower back pain.

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