Applications-actuators

Subject:
Compliant structure with reversal effect
System:
Pneumatic actuated structure consisting of highly elastic material with reversal effect
Application:
• single and cascaded fingers for external and internal gripping, particularly with a behaviour, which has an unchanged parameter u for pressure rise (broken line); less sensory effort for a gripping an object
• lever for the force transmission
• legs for a walking robots
• monolithic robot arms

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Contact person:
Prof. L. Zentner

Subject:
Compliant finger gripper
System:
Compliant gripper with material coherent joints actuated by a pneumatic drive
Application:
• external and internal gripping by single or cascaded finger
• touch finger
• lever for the force transmission
• legs for a walking robots
• monolithic robot arms

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Contact person:
Prof. L. Zentner

Subject:
Monolithic compliant gripper
System:
monolithic, pneumatic driven gripper with distributed compliance
Application:
• outside-gripper
• for sensitive picking of thin-skinned, damageable items, e. G. eggs

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Contact person:
Dr. S. Griebel

Subject:
Thermally controlled air bleed valve for solar heat installations
System:
Multiple curved diaphragm under pressure
Application:
Vent valve

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Contact person:
Prof. L. Zentner

Subject:
Adaptive anti-decubitus-support-device I
System:
An adaptive tissue with pressure-controlled stiffness and integrated sensors
Application:
main goal is a preventive human health protection through decubitus prophylaxis

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Contact person:
Prof. L. Zentner

Subject:
Adaptive anti-decubitus-support-device II
System:
An adaptive tissue with pressure-controlled stiffness and integrated sensors
Application:
main goal is a preventive human health protection through decubitus prophylaxis

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Contact person:
Prof. L. Zentner

Subject:
Compliant EEG cap with fluid mechanical actuators
System:
Compliant, mechatronic system for biomedical sensor placement
Application:
• EEG measurement in research and hospital
• new application fields, like Brain-Computer-Interface

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Contact person:
Dr. S. Griebel

Subject:
Energy-efficient, adaptive suction gripper with sensor system
system System:
Monolithic, multiple folded, one fold uses a snap-through effect (mechanical instability), pneumatically driven, structure consists of conductive & non-conductive sections, energy-saving
Application:
The suction gripper is suitable for use in cleanrooms as well as in the packaging industry for gripping, manipulating and transporting medical and pharmaceutical products.

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Contact person:
Dr. S. Griebel

Subject:
Compliant, fluid mechanical actuator and the procedure for insertion as adaptive cochlear implant electrode carrier
System:
Monolithic, fluid mechanical actuator with distributed compliance for a continuous changing of its curvature
Application:
• In medical technology, for a gentle implantation of electrode carriers in the human inner ear (lower insertion forces on the anatomical structures)
• As a active movable endoskope tip / section of an endoskope

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Contact person:
Dr. S. Griebel

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