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

Graduate School

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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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