A Bioinspired Soft Actuated Material
Publication information:
E. Roche et al.,
“A Bioinspired Soft Actuated Material”, Advanced Materials, vol. 26, no. 8, pp. 1200–1206, 2014.
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.