具有巨大的冲动的自我诱导的大距离人造肌肉,用于软机器人应用
Boyi Xu1, Feihu Song1, Yuanwu Feng1
1South China University of Technology, Shien-Ming Wu School of Intelligent Engineering, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510640, CHINA.
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
|January 13, 2026
概括
研究人员开发了一种新的自我诱导大调度 (SLiP) 方法,用于创建先进的聚合物人工肌肉. 这一单步过程使大,稳定的线圈距离能够在软机器人应用中提高性能.
科学领域:
- 材料科学 材料科学 材料科学
- 机器人技术 机器人技术 机器人技术
- 聚合物科学 聚合物科学
背景情况:
- 制造具有大卷轴距和收缩性冲动的聚合物人工肌肉通常涉及复杂的多步骤过程.
- 现有的方法往往限制了这些执行器的可实现性能和可扩展性.
研究的目的:
- 引入一种新的,单步制造方法,用于具有大而稳定的初始线圈距的聚合物人工肌肉.
- 通过简单的回火调整来证明可调节的控制线圈距离.
- 展示开发的人工肌肉的高性能和多样化应用.
主要方法:
- 开发了自我诱导大度 (SLiP) 方法,这是聚合物肌肉的一步火过程.
- 通过调整回火温度和持续时间来调整初始线圈距.
- 制造和测试了具有不同性配置的聚合物肌肉.
主要成果:
- 在聚合物肌肉中实现了大而稳定的初始线圈距.
- 显著的收缩性和拉伸性应变分别为95.1%和560%.
- 报告的最大特异功率为3.5千瓦/公斤,收缩性中风率为40%/秒.
- 成功地将SLiP肌肉集成到各种软机器人原型中.
结论:
- 该SLiP方法提供了一个实用和高效的生产聚合物人工肌肉的路线,具有巨大的中风能力.
- 这种技术可以实现未加载的驱动,这对于先进的软机器人至关重要.
- 发达的肌肉显示出生物仿真设备和多功能软机器人系统的潜力.
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