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Pneumatic artificial muscle and its application on driving variable trailing-edge camber wing

  • Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

As a novel bionic actuator, pneumatic artificial muscle has high power to weight ratio. In this paper, the experimental setup to measure the static output force of pneumatic artificial muscle was designed and the relationship between the static output force and the air pressure was investigated. Experimental result shows the static output force of pneumatic artificial muscle decreases nonlinearly with increasing contraction ratio. A variable camber wing based on the pneumatic artificial muscle was developed and the variable camber wing model was manufactured to validate the variable camber concept. Wind tunnel tests were conducted in the low speed wind tunnel. Experimental result shows that the wing camber increases with increasing air pressure.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIndustrial and Commercial Applications of Smart Structures Technologies 2010
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
EventIndustrial and Commercial Applications of Smart Structures Technologies 2010 - San Diego, CA, United States
Duration: 8 Mar 20109 Mar 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume7645
ISSN (Print)0277-786X

Conference

ConferenceIndustrial and Commercial Applications of Smart Structures Technologies 2010
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego, CA
Period8/03/109/03/10

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