Victoria Webster–Wood

A Magnetorheological Fluid-based Damper Towards Increased Biomimetism in Soft Robotic Actuators

Damping properties in biological muscle are crit-ical for absorbing shock, maintaining posture, and positioning limbs and appendages. When creating biomimetic robots, the ability to replicate the dynamics of biological muscle is neces-sary to reproduce behaviors seen in an animal model. However, the…