Electro-thermally controllable twisted coiled actuators (TCA) using nylon line

Montassar Aidi A. Sharif

doi:10.1117/12.2605745

20 April 2022 Electro-thermally controllable twisted coiled actuators (TCA) using nylon line

Montassar Aidi A. Sharif

Proceedings Volume 12042, Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) XXIV; 1204212 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2605745
Event: SPIE Smart Structures + Nondestructive Evaluation, 2022, Long Beach, California, United States

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Abstract

Twisting-coiled Actuator (TCA) have numerous appealing properties such as huge energy density, large stroke, and large contractions. Thermally incited muscles manufactured from nylon/polymer can be utilized in robotics, biomedical gadgets, and energy harvesting devices. To optimally make it a promising artificial muscle for robotic and medical applications, it is important to fabricate and characterize them effectively. TCA can exhibits the adaptability of the artificial muscles behavior in general. Notwithstanding, this flexibility accompanies a need to see how the unique ways of the fabrication can be accomplished with these novel actuators and how they compromise in execution. In this work, we propose a Twisting-coiled Actuator to create an artificial muscles. The proposed actuator consists of fishing line in 0.6mm diameter. The fishing line is coiled into coils to create a twisting-coiled actuator. Experimental are conducted with a hot water to characterize the actuator. The findings of our experiments highlight essential results related to the response of these artificial muscles such as large displacement, stored elastic energy, and repeatability

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Montassar Aidi A. Sharif "Electro-thermally controllable twisted coiled actuators (TCA) using nylon line", Proc. SPIE 12042, Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) XXIV, 1204212 (20 April 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2605745

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