Abstract
The wearable driving system is required the pneumatic soft actuators, valves, and a controller. The complex inner configuration of the valve requiring relatively high precision prevents to fabricate a low-cost driving system. The cost for valve occupies most of the total cost. In this chapter, two types of low-cost control valves with no mechanical sliding parts in valve are described. One is an on/off type valve using vibration motor, another is a servo valve using buckled tube. The operating principle and performance of both valves are also introduced.
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Finally, we express thanks that this work was supported in part by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan through a QOL Innovative Research Program (2012-) and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (Subject No. 24560315).
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Akagi, T., Dohta, S., Ono, A., Nasir, A. (2016). Low-Cost Wearable Control Valves with No Mechanical Sliding Parts in Valves. In: Juang, J. (eds) Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and Engineering Systems (ICITES2014). Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 345. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17314-6_5
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