A vacuum-powered artificial muscle designed for infant rehabilitation

Mijaíl Jaén Mendoza; Samuel Dutra Gollob; Diego Lavado; Bon Ho Brandon Koo; Segundo Cruz; Ellen T. Roche; Emir A. Vela

doi:10.3390/mi12080971

A vacuum-powered artificial muscle designed for infant rehabilitation

Mijaíl Jaén Mendoza, Samuel Dutra Gollob, Diego Lavado, Bon Ho Brandon Koo, Segundo Cruz, Ellen T. Roche, Emir A. Vela

Department of Electrical and Mechatronics Engineering

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Abstract

The majority of soft pneumatic actuators for rehabilitation exercises have been designed for adult users. Specifically, there is a paucity of soft rehabilitative devices designed for infants with upper and lower limb motor disabilities. We present a low-profile vacuum-powered artificial muscle (LP-VPAM) with dimensions suitable for infants. The actuator produced a maximum force of 26 N at vacuum pressures of −40 kPa. When implemented in an experimental model of an infant leg in an antagonistic-agonist configuration to measure resultant knee flexion, the actuator generated knee flexion angles of 43^◦ and 61^◦ in the prone and side-lying position, respectively.

Original language	English
Article number	971
Journal	Micromachines
Volume	12
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/mi12080971
State	Published - 2021

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Infant rehabilitation
Pneumatic artificial muscles
Vacuum-powered actuators

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