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In recent years more and more publications reporting alternative actuators, including artificial muscles, for climbing and walking robots have appeared in the literature. This paper considers pneumatic artificial muscles, better known as McKibben muscles and fluidic muscles, the so called FESTO actuators. The dynamic and static characteristics of these muscles, including a comparison between theoretical and experimental characteristics, are first presented and then the use of such actuators in walking machines demonstrated.
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Feja, K., Kaczmarski, M., Riabcew, P. (2006). Manipulators Driven by Pneumatic Muscles. In: Tokhi, M.O., Virk, G.S., Hossain, M.A. (eds) Climbing and Walking Robots. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26415-9_93
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