Transversal Pneumatic Artificial Muscles

The paper presents an innovative construction of Pneumatic Artificial Muscles. Due to transverse deformation of the muscle, it allows obtaining a linear displacement by changing a diameter of a muscle. The new type of drive, which is represented by this solution, can be used in a robot designed for exploration of a human intestine. On the basis of investigation, there are presented results of a research, differences between traditional and transversal pneumatic muscles and profits of the new construction.