Curt S. Kothera

TL;DR: In this article, an elastomer-fiber-composite surface layer that is supported by a flexible honeycomb structure was developed for a wing span morphing UAV.

TL;DR: In this article, a series of experiments aimed at understanding the static behavior of the actuators was conducted, and the results for three different lengths (4 in, 6 in, and 8 in), three diameters (1/8 in, 1/4 in., and 3/16 in.), and one wall thickness (1 /16 in.) at pressures ranging from 10 psi to 60 psi illustrate the key design trends seen in McKibben actuator geometry.

TL;DR: In this article, a computational model of transport and electromechanical transduction for ionomeric polymer transducers is developed based upon a coupled chemoelectrical multifield formulation and computes the spatiotemporal volumetric charge density profile to an applied potential at the boundaries.

TL;DR: Comparing with experimental results, simulations revealed that the proposed model gave good performance in estimating motions of the antagonistic actuation as well as the pressure variance of the Mckibben muscles.

TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of three advanced control strategies (sliding mode control, adaptive sliding mode control and adaptive neural network (ANN) control) was investigated to enable smooth and accurate motion tracking of a single degree-of-freedom pneumatically actuated manipulator.