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bulges mimicking a human muscle contraction. Currently, the method used to manufacture
the PAMs is by braiding with artificial fibers. Natural fiber braided PAMs are
rarely available for the usage in prosthesis. The novel contribution of this
project is to design and develop a desirable low cost and lightweight Pneumatic
Artificial Muscle (PAM) actuator using different materials. In this study, the
studies are conducted to find the effect of various braided materials such as
nylon and Natural Fiber (Silk). The analysis is carried out on actuators of
having constant longitudinal length of 140 mm varying the diameter namely 20
and 30 mm. The experiment was set up to collect the length and force variation
data of the artificial muscle with various compressed air pressures. The force
generated by PAM purely depends on the rate of pressure added and removal from
the actuator and is contractile in nature upon inflation. PAM actuator find
wide applications in various facets of robotic equipments and industrial automation.]]>Wickramatunge, K.C. and T. Leephakpreeda,20092009pp: 15Tondu, B. and Lopez, 2000201538Daerden, F. and D. Lefeber,20024790102Laksanacharoen, S.,20042004pp: 13Krishna, S., T. Nagarajan and A.M.A. Rani,20111117491755Krishnan, S., T. Nagarajan and A.M.A. Rani, 20112011MalaysiaDeaconescu, T.,20072007pp: 271275Inoue, K.,19881988pp: 57-63pp: 57-63Lynn, J.,20002000Deaconescu, A. and T. Deaconescu, 20082008pp: 15Caldwell, D.G., G.A. Medrano-Cerda and M. Goodwin,1995154048