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Advances in artificial muscles: A brief literature and patent review
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2023 Background: Artificial muscles are an active research area now.Methods: A bibliometric analysis was performed to evaluate the development of artificial muscles based on research papers and patents.
Yuan Jing +4 more
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A pneumatically powered knee-ankle-foot orthosis (KAFO) with myoelectric activation and inhibition
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2009 Background The goal of this study was to test the mechanical performance of a prototype knee-ankle-foot orthosis (KAFO) powered by artificial pneumatic muscles during human walking.
Ferris Daniel P, Sawicki Gregory S
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Embedding Bifurcations into Pneumatic Artificial Muscle
Advanced ScienceAbstractHarnessing complex body dynamics has long been a challenge in robotics, particularly when dealing with soft dynamics, which exhibit high complexity in interacting with the environment. Recent studies indicate that these dynamics can be used as a computational resource, exemplified by the McKibben pneumatic artificial muscle, a common soft ...
Nozomi Akashi +6 more
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Joint variable stiffness of musculoskeletal leg mechanism for quadruped robot
Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2017 When the quadruped robot is in locomotion such as jumping and running with higher speed, there is non-continuous contact force between the foot and the environment inevitably. In order to achieve the flexible force interaction of the bionic legs with the
Jingtao Lei +3 more
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Micromachines, 2023 Soft robotics, a recent advancement in robotics systems, distinguishes itself by utilizing soft and flexible materials like silicon rubber, prioritizing safety during human interaction, and excelling in handling complex or delicate objects.
Mahmoud Elsamanty +6 more
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A Self-sensing Inverse Pneumatic Artificial Muscle
2022 IEEE 5th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), 2022 In recent years, the inverse pneumatic artificial muscles attained great attention in soft robotics, especially for the wider motion range compared to traditional positive pneumatic actuators. Besides self-sensing is a recognized highly desirable property for soft actuators to enable proprioception and to facilitate the soft robots control, a self ...
Lucrezia Lorenzon +3 more
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ACTUATORS USED FOR ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES [PDF]
Annals of the University of Oradea: Fascicle of Textiles, Leatherwork, 2023 This work presents aspects regarding the actuators used to create artificial muscles and their operating principles. Actuators perform an action (movement, brightness increase, colour change) based on a stimulus (electrical, mechanical, magnetic or ...
SÂRBU Teodor, AILENI Raluca Maria
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Machines, 2022 Pneumatic muscles have significant advantages over typical pneumatic cylinders, such as smooth speed adjustment, higher power-to-weight ratio and longer operating life.
Lyubov Kotkas +3 more
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Actuators, 2023 Technical solutions based on biological models are the subject of research by a wide range of experts and mainly concern their mechanical use. When designing a suitable actuator, they use the physical methods of biological representatives, of which a ...
Peter Tuleja +4 more
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Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing, 2023 Vertebrates achieve a high degree of flexibility and skillful performance via a musculoskeletal system consisting of multiple joints. These joints are simultaneously driven by some multi-articular muscles, which run over two or more joints and ...
Yuta ISHIKAWA +2 more
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