Modeling and testing of a knitted-sleeve fluidic artificial muscle

被引:18
作者
Ball, Erick J. [1 ]
Meller, Michael A. [1 ]
Chipka, Jordan B. [1 ]
Garcia, Ephrahim [1 ]
机构
[1] Cornell Univ, Lab Intelligent Machine Syst, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
关键词
McKibben muscle; artificial muscle; knit; actuator; pneumatic; fluidic; PAM;
D O I
10.1088/0964-1726/25/11/115024
中图分类号
TH7 [仪器、仪表];
学科分类号
0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
摘要
The knitted-sleeve fluidic muscle is similar in design to a traditional McKibben muscle, with a separate bladder and sleeve. However, in place of a braided sleeve, it uses a tubular-knit sleeve made from a thin strand of flexible but inextensible yarn. When the bladder is pressurized, the sleeve expands by letting the loops of fiber slide past each other, changing the dimensions of the rectangular cells in the stitch pattern. Ideally, the internal volume of the sleeve would reach a maximum when its length has contracted by 2/3 from its maximum length, and although this is not reachable in practice, preliminary tests show that free contraction greater than 50% is achievable. The motion relies on using a fiber with a low coefficient of friction in order to reduce hysteresis to an acceptable level. In addition to increased stroke length, potential advantages of this technique include slower force drop-off during the stroke, more useable energy in certain applications, and greater similarity to the force-length relationship of skeletal muscle. Its main limitation is its potentially greater effect from friction compared to other fluidic muscle designs.
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