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This article shows some innovative artificial and textile pneumatic muscles designed at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (DIMEAS) of the Politecnico di Torino. The study was carried on using a specific test bench suitable to work with these textile pneumatic muscles. Various geometries were tested giving interesting information about their behavior analyzed with different materials and constructions. These prototypes are useful to be integrated into active clothing for robotic rehabilitation of upper limbs.
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The work presented in this paper was financed with funding from the Piedmont regional administration project, D.G.R. No. 227-4715 of 27 November 2006, entitled “HI-TEX: subtheme 4b—Active clothing and fabrics for rehabilitation”, and with funding from the DIMEAS - Politecnico di Torino - Italy.
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Belforte, G., Eula, G., Ivanov, A., Raparelli, T., Sirolli, S. (2018). Study and Experimentation of Innovative Textile Pneumatic Muscle Prototypes. In: Ferraresi, C., Quaglia, G. (eds) Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics. RAAD 2017. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 49. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61276-8_90
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