Prosthetic Tail: Artificial Anthropomorphic Tail for Extending Innate Body Functions.
Prosthetic Tail: Artificial Anthropomorphic Tail for Extending Innate Body Functions.
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假肢尾巴：用于扩展先天身体功能的人造拟人尾巴。
DOI：
10.1145/3311823.3311848
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发表时间：
2019
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Kouta Minamizawa.
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作者：
Junichi Nabeshima;MHD Yamen Saraiji;Kouta Minamizawa.
对于大多数哺乳动物和脊椎动物来说，尾巴在它们的身体中扮演着重要的角色，提供各种功能来扩大它们的机动性，或者作为一个肢体来进行操纵和抓握。在本文中，我们提出了一种探索性仿生学启发的拟人尾巴设计，以允许工程和扩展人体功能。所提出的尾巴由相邻的关节和一个基于弹簧的结构组成，以处理剪切和切向力，并允许管理目标尾巴的长度和重量。尾部的内部结构由四个气动人造肌肉驱动，为尾端提供驱动机构。在这里，我们描述了设计和实现过程，并强调了使用这种假肢尾巴的潜在应用。
For most mammals and vertebrate animals, tail plays an important role for their body providing variant functions to expand their mobility, or as a limb that allows manipulation and gripping. In this paper, we propose an exploratory biomimicry-inspired anthropomorphic tail design to allow engineering and expanding human body functions. The proposed tail consists of adjacent joints with a spring-based structure to handle shearing and tangential forces, and allow managing the length and weight of the target tail. The internal structure of the tail is driven by four pneumatic artificial muscles providing the actuation mechanism for the tail tip. Here we describe the design and implementation process, and highlight potential applications for using such prosthetic tail.