Abstract
Textile based technologies can generate solutions highly adaptable with wearable robots and devices. Textile jamming (TJ) is a stiffness modulating technique with elaborated textile materials. The fabric with embedded miniature and rigid segments remain flexible due to the textile substrate while they present a high variation of stiffness (up to 17 times) in their stiff mode. The resulted TJ packs can be assembled by traditional sewing technique to the textile garments.
This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 framework programme for research and innovation under grant agreement No. 688175.
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Sadeghi, A., Mondini, A., Mazzolai, B. (2019). Preliminary Experimental Study on Variable Stiffness Structures Based on Textile Jamming for Wearable Robotics. In: Carrozza, M., Micera, S., Pons, J. (eds) Wearable Robotics: Challenges and Trends. WeRob 2018. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01887-0_10
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