Overview of the Artificial Muscle Actuators

doi:10.3901/JME.2021.09.001

Abstract

Abstract: Artificial muscle usually refers to a flexible material or device that can perform movements such as extension, expansion, bending, and twisting under external physical or chemical stimulation and do work to external object. The artificial muscle can greatly improve the robot's flexibility and adaptability, and human-machine interaction. The development of artificial muscles has a history of more than sixty years, and the methods to stimulate them are also various, such as by electricity, by heat, by internal pressure, etc. This research attempts to give a review of artifical muscles in driving principle, performances, applications and development trends, with a view to provide references and comparisons for roboticists and other researchers who are interesting in it.

Key words: soft actuator, artificial muscle, soft actuator, soft robotics

CLC Number:

TP242

XING Zhiguang, LIN Jun, ZHAO Jianwen. Overview of the Artificial Muscle Actuators[J]. Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 2021, 57(9): 1-11.

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