Abstract
In this paper, we tried to fabricate a soft film actuator that have a large size and lightweight. The length, width and weight of the actuator are 6.41m, 0.51m, and 564g, respectively. The actuator has an air chamber with pleated sheet structure. The actuator could not expand enough to drive when air pressure was applied to it. An upper and lower film was drawn by air flow and a flow channel on the actuator was closed. This problem caused by increasing in size of film structure. Previous soft film actuator was small-size and elastic force of films were larger than a force generated by an air flow. To develop a large soft film actuator, we need a new inlet for film structure.
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