Design and control implementation of fabric-based muscles for a soft wearable exoskeleton

• Main Author: Teo, Tizane Wan Ting
• Other Authors: Lorenzo Masia
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/72304
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Artificial muscles that can be used in mechanical devices are created to replace human muscles. They work like an actuator but is much smaller, portable and efficient. Nylon muscles had been discovered in 2014 where it is constructed from silver coated nylon sewing threads which makes it conductiv...