The utilization of pneumatic muscles in various industrial applications is still in an early phase, due to the relative newness of these components. In this paper the authors present results of the ongoing theoretical and experimental research on the operational behaviour of pneumatic muscles. Information is presented concerning muscle structure, as well as data on the generated forces, positio...

Fault diagnosis of pneumatic system of automatic production line is studied in this paper. A fuzzy neural network fault diagnosis expert system and pneumatic circuit fault diagnosis instrument are designed. The experiment device is built as well. In the end some experiments are done, whose results show that the expert system using fuzzy neural network can diagnose fast and truly fault of pneuma...

Pneumatic muscles are innovative tensile actuators consisting of a fiber-reinforced vulcanised rubber tubing with appropriate connectors at both ends. The working principle is based on a rhombical fibre structure that leads to a muscle contraction in longitudinal direction when the pneumatic muscle is filled with compressed air. This contraction can be used for actuation purposes. Pneumatic mus...

Background: Among various intracorporeal lithotripters, pneumatic lithotripter has become the widely used tool for the treatment of urinary stones. Recently the holmium: YAG laser has been used with a wide range of potential urological applications, including intracorporeal lithotripsy of urinary calculi. Purpose: Compare the effectiveness and complications of treatment for ureteric stones betw...

background although heller myotomy is one of the most effective treatments for achalasia, it may be associated with early or late symptom relapse in some patients. therefore, additional treatment is required to achieve better control of symptoms. aim : to evaluate the safety and efficacy of pneumatic balloon dilation (pbd) in patients with symptom relapse after heller myotomy. methods thirty si...

Pneumatic servo systems are applied in several industrial applications and have also been studied extensively for the purposes of compensating the nonlinearity of pneumatic servo systems and improving the controllability with robust control. In their control system design, the transfer function of a pneumatic servo system has been a third-order time lag system, based on the assumption that serv...

BACKGROUND/AIM Pneumatic caisson engineering has been developed for large civil engineering constructions. Because of complaints of blurred vision by personnel working in pneumatic caissons, the development of myopia was suspected. The aim of this study was to determine the cause of the blurred vision and the mechanism underlying the changes. METHODS 12 caisson workers underwent a complete op...

Based on the theoretical analysis and experimental study of pneumatic damping behaviour for the valves in the reciprocating compressor, this paper presents a simple mathematical model of pneumatic damping valves, in which the non-viscous damping force is introduced. The non-viscous damping coefficient is obtained by the experimental determination. The simulation results of this simple model for...

Pneumatic actuation systems are widely used in industrial automation, such as drilling, sawing, squeezing, gripping, and spraying. Also, they are used in motion control of materials and parts handling, packing machines, machine tools, food processing industry and in robotics; e.g. two-legged robot. In this paper, a Neural Network based intelligent PI controller is designed and simulated to incr...

It is a general assumption that pneumatic muscle-type actuators will play an important role in the development of an assistive rehabilitation robotics system. In the last decade, the development of a pneumatic muscle actuated lower-limb leg orthosis has been rather slow compared to other types of actuated leg orthoses that use AC motors, DC motors, pneumatic cylinders, linear actuators, series ...