@ARTICLE{Elsayed_2014,title={Finite Element Analysis and Design Optimization of a Pneumatically Actuating Silicone Module for Robotic Surgery Applications},year={2014},author={Yahya Elsayed and Yahya Elsayed and Augusto Vincensi and Augusto Vincensi and Constantina Lekakou and Constantina Lekakou and Tao Geng and Tao Geng and Chakravarthini M. Saaj and Chakravarthini M. Saaj and Tommaso Ranzani and Tommaso Ranzani and Matteo Cianchetti and Matteo Cianchetti and Arianna Menciassi and Arianna Menciassi},doi={10.1089/soro.2014.0016},pmid={null},pmcid={null},mag_id={1613131328},journal={Soft robotics},abstract={Abstract The design of a pneumatically actuated silicone module, resembling soft tissue, with three pneumatic chambers is considered and optimized in this study with the aim of using it in a soft robot arm for robotic surgery applications. Three types of silicone materials, Ecoflex 0030 and 0050 and Dragonskin 0030, have been investigated, and a constitutive model has been derived for each of them. Design optimization of the silicone module was based on finite element analysis (FEA) that was validated against experimental data of one-degree bending under one-channel actuation. This was followed by FEA parametric studies for module design optimization to minimize the ballooning effect in one-degree bending as well as reduce the actuation pressure. Modules made from Ecoflex 0030 and Ecoflex 0050 exhibited the same bending shape in FEA, but about three times higher actuation pressure was required for the harder Ecoflex 0050. Design parameters under investigation in the parametric FEA studies included the sha...}}

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