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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Intell Mater Syst Struct. 2017 Jan 24;28(16):2167–2183. doi: 10.1177/1045389X16685443

Figure 7.

Figure 7

(a) Experimental setup at its initial configuration, where l0, δ0, δ, and δr are the non-stretched length of each SMA spring, initial displacement, final displacement, and stretched/recovered length during each actuation step (b) Actual characterization setup to evaluate the effect of cooling module on the performance of antagonistic SMAs as well as to determine experimental behavior of antagonistic SMAs