Artificial Muscle based on Flexinol motor wire
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Intelligent Robotics Laboratory
Vanderbilt School of Engineering
Artificial Muscle based on
Flexinol motor wire
Scott Renkes
Advisor: David Noelle
Intelligent Robotics Laboratory
Vanderbilt School of Engineering
Purpose
Design a new actuator
Robotics
Prosthetics
Teleoperation
Current technology
Electric motors
Hydraulics
Pneumatics
Intelligent Robotics Laboratory
Vanderbilt School of Engineering
Why a new actuator?
Replicate human movement
Refined force and velocity control of
device
Human like movement allows for better
man machine integration
Humanoid robots can more easily mimic
humans
Intelligent Robotics Laboratory
Vanderbilt School of Engineering
Fibrous Bundled Structure
Flexinol motor wire to
replace muscle fibers
Package wires similar
to muscle
Flexinol/muscle fiber
proportional elasticity
Similar force/length
curves
Intelligent Robotics Laboratory
Vanderbilt School of Engineering
Uncle Brain wants YOU!
One bundle, one neuron
Weak fast, slow strong
Properties of motor wire
allow for variety of activation
Neural Network Controller
Force feedback training
Inverse Dynamics
Intelligent Robotics Laboratory
Vanderbilt School of Engineering
EMG Controller
Muscle Voltage vs
Muscle Force
EMG signals
represent muscle
force
Neural Network for
EMG pattern
recognition
Intelligent Robotics Laboratory
Vanderbilt School of Engineering
Project Status
Completed work
Study properties of motor wire
Calculate efficiency of passive cooling
Develop Structure and Control for the device
Design test bed
Examine neural network solution
Current Work
Finish building actuator and cooling system
Intelligent Robotics Laboratory
Vanderbilt School of Engineering
Future Work
Design and build active cooling system
driven by actuator forces
Code user friendly interface for training
and controlling neural network
Intelligent Robotics Laboratory
Vanderbilt School of Engineering
Questions?