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

Weilong Yin; Libo Liu; Yijin Chen; Yanju Liu; Jinsong Leng

doi:10.1117/12.847352

29 March 2010 Pneumatic artificial muscle and its application on driving variable trailing-edge camber wing

Weilong Yin, Libo Liu, Yijin Chen, Yanju Liu, Jinsong Leng

Proceedings Volume 7645, Industrial and Commercial Applications of Smart Structures Technologies 2010; 76450W (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.847352
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

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.

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Weilong Yin, Libo Liu, Yijin Chen, Yanju Liu, and Jinsong Leng "Pneumatic artificial muscle and its application on driving variable trailing-edge camber wing", Proc. SPIE 7645, Industrial and Commercial Applications of Smart Structures Technologies 2010, 76450W (29 March 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.847352

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