Variable gearing in a biologically inspired pneumatic actuator array

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Azizi, Emanuel ^a   Roberts, Thomas J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; BIO-INSPIRED ARCHITECTURES; BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES; MCKIBBEN ACTUATORS; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; SHORTENING VELOCITY; VARIABLE LOADING CONDITIONS;

FIBERS; LOADS (FORCES); MACHINERY; PNEUMATIC ACTUATORS; PNEUMATIC EQUIPMENT; WHEELS;

MUSCLE;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL ORGAN; BIOMIMETICS; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FLOW KINETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSDUCER; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BIOMIMETICS; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MOTION; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PRESSURE; RHEOLOGY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84878281324     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/8/2/026002     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Alexander R McN 1968 Animal Mechanics (London: Sidgwick and Jackson)
2. Azizi E, Brainerd E and Roberts T 2008 Variable gearing in pennate muscles Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. 105 1745-50 (Pubitemid 351346585)
3. Azizi E and Roberts T J 2010 Muscle performance during frog jumping: influence of elasticity on muscle operating lengths Proc. R. Soc. B 277 1523-30
4. Bar-Cohen Y 2006 Biomimetics using electroactive polymers (EAP) as artificial muscles - a review J. Adv. Mater. 38 3-9 (Pubitemid 44560500)
5. Baskin R J and Paolini P J 1967 Volume change and pressure development in muscle during contraction Am. J. Physiol. 213 1025-30
6. Brainerd E L and Azizi E 2005 Muscle fiber angle, segment bulging and architectural gear ratio in segmented musculature J. Exp. Biol. 208 3249-61 (Pubitemid 41399773)
7. Caldwell D G and Tsagarakis N 2002 Biomimetic actuators in prosthetic and rehabilitation applications Technol. Health Care 10 107-20 (Pubitemid 34451134)
8. Chou C-P and Hannaford B 1996 Measurement and modeling of McKibben pneumatic artificial muscles IEEE Trans. Robot. Autom. 12 90-102 (Pubitemid 126780450)
9. Daerden F and Lefeber D 2002 Pneumatic artificial muscles: actuators for robotics and automation Eur. J. Mech. Environ. Eng. 47 11-21 (Pubitemid 34300492)
10. Ferris D P, Czerniecki J M and Hannaford B 2005 An ankle-foot orthosis powered by artificial pneumatic muscles J. Appl. Biomech. 21 189-97 (Pubitemid 40677212)
11. Gans C 1982 Fiber architecture and muscle function Exerc. Sports Sci. Rev. 10 160-207
12. Hedrick T L 2008 Software techniques for two- and three-dimensional kinematic measurements of biological and biomimetic systems Bioinspir. Biomim. 3 1-6
13. Herr H and Kornbluh R 2004 New horizons for orthotic and prosthetic technology: artificial muscle for ambulation Proc. SPIE 5385 1-9
14. Hill A V 1953 The mechanics of active muscle Proc. R. Soc. B 141 104-17
15. Hosoda K, Takuma T and Nakamoto A 2006 Design and control of 2D biped that can walk and runwith pneumatic artificial muscles Proc. IEEE-RAS Int. Conf. on Humanoid Robots (Genova,) pp 284-9
16. Kaal W and Herold S 2011 Electroactive polymer actuators in dynamic applications IEEE/ASME Trans. Mechatronics 16 24-32
17. Klute G K, Czerniecki J M and Hannaford B 2002 Artificial muscles: actuators for biorobotic systems Int. J. Robot. Res. 21 295-309
18. Lieber R L and Friden J 2000 Functional and clinical significance of skeletal muscle architecture Muscle Nerve 23 1647-66
19. Meijer K, Bar-Cohen Y and Full R J 2003 Biological inspiration for muscle like actuators in robots Biologically Inspired Intelligent Robots (Bellingham, WA: SPIE Optical Engineering Press) 25-46
20. Otten E 1988 Concepts and models of functional architecture in skeletal muscle Exercise and Sports Sciences Reviews vol 16 ed K B Pandolf (New York: Macmillan) pp 89-137
21. Randhawa A, Jackman M and Wakeling J 2012 Muscle gearing during isotonic and isokinetic movements in the ankle plantarflexors Eur. J. Appl. Physiol. 113 437-47
22. Sawicki G S, Gordon K E and Ferris D P 2005 Powered lower limb orthoses: applications in motor adaptation and rehabilitation IEEE 9th Int. Conf. on Rehabilitation Robotics (Chicago, IL,) pp 206-11 (Pubitemid 44017794)
23. Tondu B, Ippolito S, Guiochet J and Daidie A 2005 A seven-degrees-of- freedom robot-arm driven by pneumatic artificial muscles for humanoid robots Int. J. Robot. Res. 24 257-74 (Pubitemid 40497042)
24. Wakeling J M, Blake O M, Wong I, Rana M and Lee S S M 2011 Movement mechanics as a determinate of muscle structure, recruitment and coordination Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 366 1554-64