Artificial muscle technology: Physical principles and naval prospects
Artificial muscle technology: Physical principles and naval prospects
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DOI：
10.1109/joe.2004.833135
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发表时间：
2004-07-01
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Hunter, IW
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作者：
Madden, JDW;Vandesteeg, NA;Hunter, IW
随着人们对鱼类和昆虫类运动所提供的优势的了解不断加深，人们对能够模仿自然机制的肌肉类材料的需求也在不断增加。利用电压、场、光或温度驱动的尺寸变化来产生力和位移的致动器材料正在为推进和机动性提供新的方法。介绍了这些新材料的基本性质，并对潜在的海底应用实例进行了审查，以帮助那些参与设备设计和执行器研究的人评估这些人造肌肉技术的现状和发展潜力。所描述的技术基于过去十年开发的新探索材料，也基于性能并不广为人知的旧材料。这些材料包括介电弹性体、铁电聚合物、液晶弹性体、热敏和铁电形状记忆合金、离子聚合物/金属复合材料、导电聚合物和碳纳米管。在两个案例研究中阐明了与人工肌肉技术相关的相对优点和挑战。汇总表提供了讨论的所有技术的快速指南。
The increasing understanding of the advantages offered by fish and insect-like locomotion is creating a demand for muscle-like materials capable of mimicking nature's mechanisms. Actuator materials that employ voltage, field, light, or temperature driven dimensional changes to produce forces and displacements are suggesting new approaches to propulsion and maneuverability. Fundamental properties of these new materials are presented, and examples of potential undersea applications are examined in order to assist those involved in device design and in actuator research to evaluate the current status and the developing potential of these artificial muscle technologies. Technologies described are based on newly explored materials developed over the past decade, and also on older materials whose properties are not widely known. The materials are dielectric elastomers, ferroelectric polymers, liquid crystal elastomers, thermal and ferroelectric shape memory alloys, ionic polymer/metal composites, conducting polymers, and carbon nanotubes. Relative merits and challenges associated with the artificial muscle technologies are elucidated in two case studies. A summary table provides a quick guide to all technologies that are discussed.