A Bioinspired Soft Actuated Material
Publication information:
E. Roche et al.,
“A Bioinspired Soft Actuated Material”, Advanced Materials, vol. 26, no. 8, Art. no. 8, 2014, doi: 10.1002/adma.201304018.
Abstract
A class of soft actuated materials that can achieve lifelike motion is presented. By embedding pneumatic actuators in a soft material inspired by a biological muscle fibril architecture, and developing a simple finite element simulation of the same, tunable biomimetic motion can be achieved with fully soft structures, exemplified here by an active left ventricle simulator.