Smart textiles using fluid-driven artificial muscle fibers.

ABSTRACT: The marriage of textiles with artificial muscles to create smart textiles is attracting great attention from the scientific community and industry. Smart textiles offer many benefits including adaptive comfort and high conformity to objects while providing active actuation for desired motion and force. This paper introduces a new class of programmable smart textiles created from different methods of knitting, weaving, and sticking fluid-driven artificial muscle fibers. Mathematical models are developed to describe the elongation-force relationship of the knitting and weaving textile sheets, followed by experiments to validate the model effectiveness. The new smart textiles are highly flexible, conformable, and mechanically programmable, enabling multimodal motions and shape-shifting abilit

SUBMITTER: Phan PT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9247081 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature