人工肌肉驱动器研究进展综述

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.