McKibben Project

The vision for the advanced manufacturing project workshop is to support research on collaboration, maker culture, and advanced manufacturing with sensing and controls.

This is a McKibben muscle project, which was done in collaboration with two UTD research labs: MSHT and HBS.

Here it is in action using compressed air at 10psi:

This is a second version of the McKibben with boiling heat transfer on a microporous coating in the MSHT lab.

The complete report is provided and more work will be done on this development in the future.

• Dr. Dani Fadda, Professor of Practice, 972-883-4626, fadda@utdallas.edu