Study and Prospect of Pneumatic Artificial Muscles

PAM(Pneumatic Artificial Muscle) is a new kind of pneumatic apparatus, PAMs, at present, are mainly used as robotic actuators, Their advantages are simple, little volume, pliable, zero-pollution, low costing, high power to weight ratio and easy configuring, etc.Progress, application and classification of existing PAM-types were expatiated,and suggestions for further research were presented in this paper.