Types of Pneumatic Actuators The most familiar industrial pneumatic actuator is a rod-style cylinder. A rod attached to a piston inside a barrel or tube extends through a sealed opening at one end.

Here’s a quick look at each of these methods. Pneumatic actuators have a piston inside a hollow cylinder that is moved through that cylinder by pressurized air entering from a compressor or pump.

However, “soft” actuators have their own complementary ... and released a paper covering a novel type of soft pneumatic actuator. The actuator consists of a series of soft, flexible sealed ...

This standard provides basic requirements for pneumatic valve actuators of the double-acting and single-acting types, used for on-off and modulating valve duties. It includes guidelines, ...