183 results about "Pneumatic artificial muscles" patented technology

The invention belongs to the pneumatic technology field, and relates to pneumatic artificial muscle. The artificial muscle consists of an outer mesh grid, an inner expansion tube, a sealing component and a sealing component with air vents. The outer mesh grid is aligned with the inner expansion tube at two ends and sleeved on the inner expansion tube, with the original length thereof a little longer than that of the inner expansion tube; and one end of the outer mesh grid is inserted into the sealing component, and the other end thereof is inserted into the sealing component with air vents. The inner expansion tube of the pneumatic artificial muscle is inflated with air with a certain pressure, so that the inner expansion deforms to cause the outer mesh grid to expand in the radial direction, so as to enable the pneumatic artificial muscle to expand in the radial direction, contract in the axial direction and output certain tensile force. The pneumatic artificial muscle has the characteristics of compact structure, simple manufacture, low price, high flexibility, high ratio of output force to dead weight, effective energy conservation, automatic buffer, pollution resistance, etc., and can be widely applied to the fields of robots, auxiliary medical apparatus and instruments, aviation, defense industry, etc.

The invention belongs to a robot, in particular to a joint driving device of a robot, comprising a pneumatic artificial muscle driving part, a direct-current servo motor driving part, a robot joint part, a robot joint corner measuring part, a first limb and a second limb. The joint driving device is characterized in that the pneumatic artificial muscle driving part is fixed on the second limb through a fixing member, the direct-current servo motor driving part is fixed on the second limb through a fastening sleeve, the robot joint part is fixed at the back end of the first limb through screws and is articulated with the front end of the second limb through a rotating shaft, the robot joint corner measuring part is fixed on the robot joint part through a supporting plate by the screws, and the fist limbs rotate around the robot joint part. The invention can carry larger load, has the advantages of smooth movement, rapid response, good flexibility and high positioning precision and most approaches the movement characteristics of muscles of human bodies; and besides, the invention can be widely applied to the fields of industries, service trades and rehabilitation treatment and daily life and is especially suitable for rehabilitation robots and simulated robots.

A 7-dof anthropomorphic arm driven by the pneumatic artificial muscles mainly comprises a shoulder joint (1), an elbow joint (2), a wrist joint (3), an arm support frame (4), an upper arm (5), a front arm (6) and a flexible cable (7). The arm support frame (4) is fixed with a base (49) and the pneumatic artificial muscles (44) are arranged in the arm support frame; a steel wire (A1) connected with the pneumatic artificial muscles (44) realizes the rotation of the X, Y, Z shafts through the pulley blocks (B0), (B1), (B2), (B3), (B4) and (B5); the pneumatic artificial muscles (52) driving the elbow joint (2) and the wrist joint (3) to act are arranged in the upper arm (5) and directly operate and control an elbow shaft (21) through a rope (A2) connected with the pneumatic artificial muscles or are respectively attached on a wrist (32) and a palm (34) through a casing tube steel wire (A2) and a casing tube steel wire (A3) so as to realize the rotation round the front arm (6) and the lateral movement. The invention has the advantages of large output force, compliant operation and control, simple structure and small weight simple and easy use, maintenance and repair.

The invention discloses a soft manipulator based on pneumatic artificial muscles,which comprises a manipulator mechanism and an air circuit control system. The manipulator mechanism comprises a manipulator fixing platform, an elbow joint, a manipulator lower arm, a manipulator upper arm and a wrist joint; the air circuit control system comprises an air source device, pneumatic triple pieces, a pressure-reducing valve, a proportional pressure valve, an electromagnetic valve, a pneumatic artificial muscle, a data collecting card and a computer. The pneumatic muscle actuator based soft manipulator researches and develops a pneumatic muscle manipulator based on the working characteristics of a human arm structure and the pneumatic artificial muscle, uses the flexibility advantage of the pneumatic artificial muscle to solve a plurality of weaknesses of the modern robot, researches and develops a humanized manipulator mechanism and a corresponding air circuit control system, and adopts the pneumatic artificial muscle as a driver to widen the research field of the manipulator. The soft manipulator based on pneumatic artificial muscle has the advantages of novelty, flexibility, simple structure and easy controlling and the like, and can meet the requirements on the manipulator properties in the field of bionic robots and rehabilitant robots and the like.

The invention relates to a self-adaption MDOF (Multi-Degree Of Freedom) humanoid manipulator based on pneumatic artificial muscle and aims at providing a manipulator which has certain functions of human hands and also has the characteristics of practicability, smoothness, safety, small size, lightness, easiness in control and simple mechanism. According to the technical scheme, the self-adaption MDOF humanoid manipulator based on the pneumatic artificial muscle comprises an air course control system, a manipulator mechanism and an artificial muscle system, wherein the manipulator mechanism comprises a mechanical big arm, a mechanical forearm, a hand and five fingers; the artificial muscle system comprises a plurality of third pneumatic artificial muscles, a plurality of fourth pneumatic artificial muscles, a plurality of first pneumatic artificial muscles, a plurality of fifth pneumatic artificial muscles and a plurality of second pneumatic artificial muscles; the mechanism big arm is driven by the third pneumatic artificial muscles and the fourth pneumatic artificial muscles; the mechanism forearm is driven by the first pneumatic artificial muscles; a wrist joint is driven by the fifth pneumatic artificial muscles; the five fingers are driven by the second pneumatic artificial muscles.

The invention relates to a bionic flexible machine body capable of lateral bending and up-down bending and belongs to the technical field of bionic robots. The bionic flexible machine body comprises a front machine body, a back machine body, a pneumatic artificial muscle component, a bionic spine and a sliding block moving mechanism. The pneumatic artificial muscle component is connected with the front machine and the back machine body through the sliding block moving mechanism respectively. The front end and the back end of the bionic spine are connected with the front machine body and the back machine body through screws respectively. The bionic flexible machine body can achieve lateral bending and up-down tilting bending moving and has the advantages of being good in pliability, flexibility, bionic effect and the like.

The invention discloses a flexible snakelike arm with variable rigidity. The flexible snakelike arm with the variable rigidity comprises a plurality of rigid-flexible units which are detachably connected into a whole; the rigid flexible units comprise rigid end plates, soft pneumatic artificial muscle groups, ultra-elastic multi-rod mechanisms and limiting partition plates; each ultra-elastic multi-rod mechanism comprises a plurality of ultra-elastic rods, one end of each ultra-elastic rod is assembled on one end plate, and the other end penetrates through the other end plate and then extend into the ultra-elastic rod of the adjacent rigid-flexible unit; the soft pneumatic artificial muscle groups comprise a plurality of pneumatic artificial muscles which are arranged between every two endplates and outside the ultra-elastic multi-rod mechanisms; the limiting partition plates are arranged outside the ultra-elastic multi-rod mechanisms in a sleeving mode; and the two adjacent rigid-flexible units are detachably connected through the end plates. The soft pneumatic artificial muscle groups are utilized to provide flexible bending motion capability, the plurality of ultra-elastic rodsplay a motion guiding role, and through the interaction force formed by the pneumatic artificial muscles and the super-elastic rods, the rigidity of the snake-shaped arm is variable and controllableso that the snakelike arm can reach different positions, and the motion precision of the operation end of the snakelike arm is thus improved.

[Object] To provide a hybrid actuator attaining both driving force and responsiveness, capable of reducing inertia of a movable portion.

[Solution] A pneumatic air muscle has a cylinder (112) provided in a flexible member (100) forming a pneumatic artificial muscle. At the center of an upper lid element (109) of the cylinder, a through hole is opened, and an inner wire (103) of a Bowden cable passes through this through hole and is coupled by means of a spring (106) to a bottom portion of the cylinder. When the pneumatic artificial muscle contracts, the inner wire (103) and the pneumatic air muscle move together because of the stopper (105), and the contraction force is transmitted. In contrast, when the pneumatic air muscle extends, the stopper (105) is disengaged, while the tension of inner wire (103) is kept by the spring (106) to prevent slacking.

The invention discloses a pneumatic space bending flexible joint which comprises constraint elements, a joint framework, air bags, an upper end cover, a lower end cover, upper sealing heads, lower sealing heads and fluid inlets. The constraint elements are arranged between the upper end cover and the lower end cover and are coaxially connected in series and densely arranged to form a columnar structure, four tubular cavities with parallel axes are formed in the columnar structure, the axis of one of the tubular cavities overlaps with the axis of the columnar structure to form a first tubular cavity, the other three tubular cavities expect the first tubular cavity are called as second tubular cavities, the air bags are arranged in the second tubular cavities, the two ends of the air bags are connected with the upper sealing heads and the lower sealing heads respectively and the lower sealing heads are provided with the fluid inlets. A driving device of the joint is combined with the joint to form an integral structure which is equivalent to three pneumatic artificial muscles in parallel connection and has three degrees of freedom, and composite actions such as bending and extension of a bionic joint in random directions of space can be achieved.

The invention discloses a handwork imitation dough kneading machine based on pneumatic artificial muscle. The handwork imitation dough kneading machine is characterized by comprising a single-chip microcomputer controller, an artificial muscle gas distributor, a gas distribution pipe, a surface hammer ejector rod, a reset spring, a pneumatic artificial muscle surface hammer, a dough kneading motor, a small gear, a large gear, a cam, a cam shaft, a slotting cam, a slotting cam shaft, a roller ejector rod, a connecting rod, a ridge lifting shovel and a ridge lifting shovel support rod. Compared with the prior art, the handwork imitation dough kneading machine has the advantages that (1) the existing rigid kneading part is replaced by the pneumatic artificial muscle surface hammer, so that a novel and reliable dough kneading way is provided; (2) the handwork imitation dough kneading machine fully utilizes the characteristics of flexible contact, controllable extension size and the like of the pneumatic artificial muscle, thus basically realizing handwork imitation dough kneading operation; the flour products are good in palatability and high in additional value; and (3) the handwork imitation dough kneading machine solves the problem of automatic resetting of a dough after being kneaded for once, is relatively high in degree of automation, and improves the production efficiency and the safety.

A biominetic crop picking robot comprises picking pipes based on pneumatic artificial muscle, a generator used for feeding air pressure into inner cavities of the picking pipes, pneumatic pressure rate control valves used for controlling the air pressure fed into the inner cavity of each picking pipe, a pressure sensor used for detecting air pressure fed into the inner cavity of each picking pipe, a pneumatic pressure rate controller used for coordinating and controlling each pneumatic pressure rate control valve, a pulse type vacuum generation module used for sucking picked objects, a picking control subsystem used for controlling and performing picking action, a container used for collecting the picked objects, a microprocessor used for intelligently analyzing a video, autonomously navigating and controlling the action of the picking pipes based on the pneumatic artificial muscle and a walking part used for the work of a picking robot in a picking crop area. The biominetic crop picking robot has the advantages of excellent natural flexibility, simple mechanism, low control complexity, high picking efficiency, excellent environmental adaptability, and low manufacturing and maintenance costs.

The invention discloses an orthorhombic three-freedom joint with relatively high integration driven by pneumatic artificial muscles. The orthorhombic three-freedom joint comprises a hooke joint mechanism consisting of an X-axis bracket, a Y-axis bracket and a cross shaft, wherein an Z-axis bracket is arranged on the top of the Y-axis bracket; a steering mechanism is arranged on the Z-axis bracket; a tail end performer is arranged on the top of the Z-axis bracket; artificial muscles are arranged at one sides of the steering mechanism, the X-axis mechanism and the Y-axis mechanism; ends of the artificial muscles are connected with the bracket through a nut, and the other ends of the artificial muscles are connected with a transmission rope; the transmission rope is vertically nested on the tail end performer and the shaft shoulder of the cross shaft through the steering mechanism. The orthorhombic three-freedom joint realizes three-freedom orthogonality, simplifies motion equation, improves the control speed, strengthens the joint flexibility and expands joint working sace.

The invention discloses a two-leg robot leg mechanism based on driving of artificial muscles. The two-leg robot leg mechanism comprises a single-shaft hip joint, thigh rods, a pneumatic artificial muscle driving mechanism, bionic knee joints, crus rods, ankle joint transmission mechanisms and artificial flexible feet, wherein the single-shaft hip joint is connected with the thigh rods, the thigh rods are connected with the bionic knee joints, the bionic knee joints, the crus rods, the ankle joint transmission mechanisms and the artificial flexible feet are sequentially connected, the pneumatic artificial muscle driving mechanism comprises a transverse rod, the transverse rod is perpendicularly fixed in the thigh rods, two pneumatic artificial muscles are arranged in parallel, one ends of the two pneumatic artificial muscles are fixedly connected with the transverse rod, the other ends of the two pneumatic artificial muscles are connected to each other through a chain, the chain is connected with a driving shaft of the bionic knee joints through a chain wheel, and driving is achieved through opposite pulling of the pair of pneumatic muscles. The two-leg robot leg mechanism has the advantages of being natural in walking gait, high in adaptability to road conditions, small in motion impact, high in walking speed, small in energy consumption, capable of achieving flexible motion of joints, simple in structure and delicate in design.

The invention relates to a wearable rehabilitation training device for upper limbs driven by pneumatic artificial muscles. The wearable rehabilitation training device comprises a back support assembly, a shoulder joint upward-downward swing mechanism, a shoulder joint inward-outward swing mechanism, an elbow joint swing mechanism and a wrist joint swing mechanism. A left upper end of the back support assembly is rotatably connected with a first joint shaft of the shoulder joint inward-outward swing mechanism by means of plastic bearings. The left lower end of the back support assembly is rotatably connected with the lower end of a pneumatic artificial muscle assembly A by means of a bottom plate connecting part. The shoulder joint upward-downward swing mechanism is rotatably connected with a pneumatic artificial muscle assembly B, a pneumatic artificial muscle assembly C and a joint connecting part at the upper end of the elbow joint swing mechanism by means of a shoulder joint connecting part. The lower end of the shoulder joint inward-outward swing mechanism is fixedly connected with a large arm skeleton of the elbow joint swing mechanism by means of a right-angle connecting part. The lower end of the elbow joint swing mechanism is movably connected with a small arm skeleton of the wrist joint swing mechanism in an adjustable mode. The wearable rehabilitation training device for upper limbs driven by pneumatic artificial muscles is featured by being low in weight, high in bionic performance and fine in safety.

The invention discloses humanoid lower limbs driven by pneumatic artificial muscles and relates to a robot. By the adoption of the humanoid lower limbs driven by the pneumatic artificial muscles, the problems that due to the fact that an existing active robot is driven through a rigid structure, system structure is complicated, flexibility is poor, and the energy efficiency of the robot is low are solved. The humanoid lower limbs comprise a left leg, a right leg and a pelvis, wherein the left leg and the right leg are both provided with a thigh, a shank, a foot, a hip joint, a keen joint, an upper ankle joint and a lower ankle joint, the left leg and the right leg are connected through the pelvis, and the pelvis is connected with the thighs in a rotary mode through the hip joints; each thigh is connected with the corresponding shank in a rotary mode through the corresponding knee joint, each shank is connected with an ankle joint disc in a rotary mode through the corresponding upper ankle joint, and each ankle joint disc is connected with the corresponding foot in a rotary mode through the corresponding lower ankle joint; each thigh is provided with iliacus, gluteus maximus, vastus lateralis muscles, biceps femoris muscles, semitendinosus and rectus femoris, each shank is provided with tibialis anterior muscles, musculi soleus, musculus gastrocnemius, adductor and peroneus, and the upper end of the iliacus and the upper end of the gluteus maximus are both hinged to the pelvis. The humanoid lower limbs belong to the field of humanoid robots.

The invention relates to a single-degree-of-freedom joint mechanical driven by two pneumatic artificial muscle assemblies, and belongs to the technical field of bio-robots. The single-degree-of-freedom joint mechanical driven by the two pneumatic artificial muscle assemblies can be used in leg joints of the four-footed bio-robots. The single-degree-of-freedom joint mechanical driven by the two pneumatic artificial muscle assemblies comprises the two pneumatic artificial muscle assemblies, two rotary parts, a thigh framework and a crus framework, wherein the two ends of the two pneumatic artificial muscle assemblies are connected with the rotary parts and pin shafts. The single-degree-of-freedom joint mechanical driven by the two pneumatic artificial muscle assemblies has the bionic advantages of being large in movement range, high in movement speed, good in flexibility and the like.

The invention relates to a wing skin structure, in particular to a deformable skin structure with a designable poisson ratio, aiming at solving the problem that the existing skin structure cannot meet the requirements of lower deformation rigidity along the deformation direction and higher structural rigidity along other non-deformation directions, thus being not capable of bearing aerodynamic load and inertia load. The deformable skin structure comprises a honeycomb structure base body, a flexible elastomer and a plurality of pneumatic artificial muscles, wherein the honeycomb structure base body is a honeycomb structure body formed by arranging positive poisson ratio honeycomb unit bodies and negative poisson ratio honeycomb unit bodies in a mixed way; the flexible elastomer is poured onto the honeycomb structure base body and the plurality of pneumatic artificial muscles so as to form a flexible panel. The deformable skin structure with the designable poisson ratio is used for manufacturing aircraft wing skin.

The invention discloses a pneumatic artificial muscle static state characteristic comprehensive testing device and a driving system. A support is fixed on one end of a pedestal; two guide rails are arranged on the two sides of the pedestal along the length direction through two guide rail seats which are fixedly installed; the two guide rails are connected to an air cylinder connection plate provided with an air cylinder through a sliding block; a screw rod is arranged on the support rack between the two guide rails through a screw rod support side assembly which is installed in proximity to one end of the support rack and a screw rod support seat assembly which is arranged away from one end of the support rack; one end of the screw rod is connected to a hand wheel; the driving end of the air cylinder is connected to one end of a tension sensor; the other end of the tension sensor is connected to an air non-taken terminal of a pneumatic artificial muscle to be detected through a connection plate; the air non-taken terminal of the pneumatic artificial muscle is fixed on the support rack; the support rack is connected to one end of a displacement sensor through a connection rod; and the other end of the displacement sensor is fixed on the connection plate through a bolt. The invention can realize the comprehensive test of the static state characteristic of the pneumatic artificial muscle.

The invention belongs to the pneumatic artificial technical field, and particularly relates to double-tube sleeved type pneumatic artificial muscle.The double-tube sleeved type pneumatic artificial muscle comprises an elastic outer tube, outer cellosilk, an elastic inner tube, inner cellosilk, a first air pipe connector, a second air pipe connector, a gap, an inner tube cavity, a first clamp, a second clamp, a gap vent and an inner tube cavity vent.By controlling the relationship of air pressure in the gap and air pressure in the inner tube cavity, active axial contraction and active axial rotation of the double-tube sleeved type pneumatic artificial muscle are achieved.Compared with pneumatic muscle of the same model in the market, the double-tube sleeved type pneumatic artificial muscle has the advantage that air consumption is lower, so that energy saving is better achieved.The performance of the pneumatic muscle is improved and enriched, functional innovation and expansion are achieved, and the double-tube sleeved type pneumatic artificial muscle is worth application.

The invention discloses a balance-enhanced type intelligent protective waist band with pneumatic artificial muscles. The balance-enhanced type intelligent protective waist band comprises a waist bandbody, a falling protection mechanism and a waist and back support mechanism, wherein the waist band body is longitudinally folded, and is mutually connected by first Velcro on the waist band body, andboth ends of the waist band body are mutually connected by inserting fasteners; snap fasteners, a controller, a lithium battery, a normally-closed type electromagnetic valve and a high-pressure air cylinder are arranged on the waist band body; the falling protection mechanism comprises a plurality of support layers, a longitudinal air bag and a transverse air bag, and the upper end of each support layer is connected with the waist band body through the corresponding snap fastener; the waist and back support mechanism comprises a flexible support plate, a fixing bundle band, a support rod, a support rod adjusting mechanism, and a connecting plate. The balance-enhanced type intelligent protective waist band with pneumatic artificial muscles has the advantages that the convenience in use isrealized, the weight is light, the intelligence degree is high, the safety and reliability are realized, and the like; the problems of balance enhancing and improving of safety protection of the userin the falling process are effectively solved.

The invention discloses a pneumatic multidirectional bending flexible joint which comprises constraint elements, a joint framework, air bags, an upper end cover, a lower end cover, upper sealing heads, lower sealing heads and fluid inlets. The constraint elements are arranged between the upper end cover and the lower end cover and are coaxially connected in series and densely arranged to form a columnar structure, a plurality of tubular cavities with parallel axes are formed in the columnar structure, the axis of one of the tubular cavities overlaps with the axis of the columnar structure to form a first tubular cavity, the tubular cavities expect the first tubular cavity are called as second tubular cavities, the air bags are arranged in the second tubular cavities, the two ends of the air bags are connected with the upper sealing heads and the lower sealing heads respectively and the lower sealing heads are provided with the fluid inlets. A driving device of the joint is combined with the joint to form an integral structure which is equivalent to four pneumatic artificial muscles in parallel connection and has one degree of freedom and two degrees of operation, and active bending, axial elongation and other functions of the joint in eight directions of space can be achieved.

The invention discloses a biped robot based on pneumatic artificial muscles and relates to biped robots. The biped robot based on the pneumatic artificial muscles aims to solve the problems that an existing active robot is driven through a rigid structure, the system structure is complicated, the flexibility is poor, and the energy efficiency of the existing active robot is low. The biped robot based on the pneumatic artificial muscles comprises a left leg, a right leg and a pelvis. The left leg and the right leg each comprise a thigh, a shank, a foot, a hip joint, a knee joint and an ankle joint. The left leg and the right leg are connected through the pelvis. The pelvis is connected with the thighs in a rotary mode through the hip joints. The thighs are connected with the shanks in a rotary mode through the knee joints. The shanks are connected with the feet in a rotary mode through the ankle joints. The iliac muscles, the gluteus maximus, the vastus lateralis muscles, the biceps femoris muscles, the semitendinous muscles and the rectus femoris muscles are arranged on the thighs. The tibialis anterior muscles, the soleus muscles and the gastrocnemius muscles are arranged on the shanks. The upper ends of the iliac muscles and the upper ends of the gluteus maximus are hinged to the pelvis respectivley. The lower ends of the iliac muscles and the lower ends of the gluteus maximus are hinged to the thighs respectively. The upper ends of the vastus lateralis muscles and the upper ends of the biceps femoris muscles are hinged to the thighs respectively. The biped robot based on the pneumatic artificial muscles belongs to the field of humanoid robots.

The invention belongs to the pneumatic artificial technical field and in particular relates to a pneumatic artificial muscle with self-sensing and driving functions. The pneumatic artificial muscle comprises fibers, an elastic hose, a cylindrical sleeve pipe, a fiber collecting hoop, a fiber collecting hole, a piezoelectric body, an electrode, a sensing circuit, a drive circuit, a hoop and an air pipe joint. The pneumatic artificial muscle has the beneficial effects that via the direct piezoelectric effects of the piezoelectric body, the contractility of the fibers can be measured to obtain the external load driving force of the pneumatic muscle; meanwhile, collision of the pneumatic muscle can be self-sensed according to the real-time reading of a voltmeter; via the inverse piezoelectric effects of the piezoelectric body, the amount of contraction of the pneumatic muscle can be increased and the rigidity of the pneumatic muscle can be changed; compared with the same model of pneumatic muscle on the market, the pneumatic muscle provided by the invention can achieve the effects of detecting the external load driving force, self-sensing collision, increasing the amount of contraction of the pneumatic muscle and changing the rigidity of the pneumatic muscle; the properties of the pneumatic muscle are improved and enriched; and the pneumatic muscle has function innovation and extension and is worthy to be applied.