Design and optimization of multi-class series-parallel linear electromagnetic array artificial muscle
Issue title: Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology – Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology, 11–13 October 2013, Wuhan, China
Affiliations: Medical Electronic Engineering Department, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China | School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
Note: [] Corresponding author. Qin, Email: xsqin@nwpu.edu.cn, Tel.: (029)88494271; Dong, Email: dongxiuzhen@fmmu.edu.cn, Tel.: (029)84776397, Fax: (029)84776397; Li Jing and Ji Zhenyu contributed equally to this work. Dong Xiuzhen and Qin Xiansheng contributed equally to this work.
Note: [] Corresponding author. Qin, Email: xsqin@nwpu.edu.cn, Tel.: (029)88494271; Dong, Email: dongxiuzhen@fmmu.edu.cn, Tel.: (029)84776397, Fax: (029)84776397; Li Jing and Ji Zhenyu contributed equally to this work. Dong Xiuzhen and Qin Xiansheng contributed equally to this work.
Abstract: Skeletal muscle exhibiting complex and excellent precision has evolved for millions of years. Skeletal muscle has better performance and simpler structure compared with existing driving modes. Artificial muscle may be designed by analyzing and imitating properties and structure of skeletal muscle based on bionics, which has been focused on by bionic researchers, and a structure mode of linear electromagnetic array artificial muscle has been designed in this paper. Half sarcomere is the minimum unit of artificial muscle and electromagnetic model has been built. The structural parameters of artificial half sarcomere actuator were optimized to achieve better movement performance. Experimental results show that artificial half sarcomere actuator possesses great motion performance such as high response speed, great acceleration, small weight and size, robustness, etc., which presents a promising application prospect of artificial half sarcomere actuator.
