What is an artificial muscle? A comparison of soft actuators to biological muscles

DR Higueras-Ruiz, K Nishikawa… - Bioinspiration & …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Interest in emulating the properties of biological muscles that allow for fast adaptability and
control in unstructured environments has motivated researchers to develop new soft …

Comparative study of robotic artificial actuators and biological muscle

W Liang, H Liu, K Wang, Z Qian… - Advances in …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Biological muscles exhibit a high level of integration, in which actuators, sensors and
transmission elements can be included in one component. Artificial muscles or actuators …

Development of a 3D printed bipedal robot: towards humanoid research platform to study human musculoskeletal biomechanics

K Wang, L Ren, Z Qian, J Liu, T Geng, L Ren - Journal of Bionic …, 2021 - Springer
The objective of this study is to develop a bio robot with a high degree of biomechanical
fidelity to the human musculoskeletal system in order to investigate the biomechanical …

Development of Tensegrity Manipulator Driven by 40 Pneumatic Cylinders for Investigating Functionality in Hyper-Redundant Musculoskeletal Systems

Y Yoshimitsu, S Ikemoto - Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, 2023 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Musculoskeletal systems are characterized by their structural softness and drive
redundancy. The objective of this study was to reproduce these features using a tensegrity …

Experimental Verification of Kinematics and Kinetics in a Biomimetic Bipedal Robot

AG Steele, A Etoundi, AJ Hunt - Journal of …, 2023 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This article presents experimental test results for joints used in a biomimetic bipedal robot. In
this work, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scans are …

Geometric conditions of a two-link-and-six muscle structure based on internal force stability

H Ochi, H Kino, K Tahara, Y Matsutani - ROBOMECH Journal, 2020 - Springer
In a musculoskeletal system, internal tensile forces are generated among the muscles
because it is a redundant system. The balancing of the internal tensile forces for a given …

Research on bionics using parallel manipulator actuated by pneumatic actuators

F Jiang, H Liu, D Chai - 2021 5th International Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pneumatic Artificial Muscles (PAMs) and Pneumatic Cylinders (PCs) are the two main
pneumatic actuators. New types of parallel mechanism configurations with joints are …

Development of musculoskeletal walking simulator for analysis of human walking and rehabilitation

N Sakai, R Yukiho, T Ikeda, M Fuchi, K Hayashi… - 2022 - kyutech.repo.nii.ac.jp
In the field of rehabilitation, the explanation of walking motion, called 'Rocker function', is
one of the practical benchmarks for the facilitation of human walking in clinical settings. If this …

非対称な拮抗構造を有する空圧筋骨格脚モデルにおけるアクチュエータ間協調の解析

中西大輔, 久保田耀一朗, 浪花啓右… - システム制御情報学会 …, 2020 - jstage.jst.go.jp
抄録 Many researchers have developed musculoskeletal robots with McKibben pneumatic
actuator to elucidate the movement mechanism of animals by a constructive approach in …

Muscle Characteristics of Flexible Redundant Hybrid Manipulators Based on Pneumatic Artificical Muscles

F Jiang, H Liu, D Yin - 2021 6th International Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To solve the challenging issue of humanoid robot joints trajectory tracking that are actuated
by flexible redundant hybrid Pneumatic Artificical Muscles (PAMs). A new type of internal …