School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA; Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, 3 Blackfan circle, Boston, MA, 02155, USA.
Adv Mater. 2014 Feb 26;26(8):1200-6. doi: 10.1002/adma.201304018. Epub 2013 Nov 8.
A class of soft actuated materials that can achieve lifelike motion is presented. By embedding pneumatic actuators in a soft material inspired by a biological muscle fibril architecture, and developing a simple finite element simulation of the same, tunable biomimetic motion can be achieved with fully soft structures, exemplified here by an active left ventricle simulator.
本文提出了一类能够实现逼真运动的软致动材料。通过在受生物肌肉原纤维结构启发的软材料中嵌入气动致动器,并对其进行简单的有限元模拟,可实现具有全软结构的可调仿生运动,这里以主动左心室模拟器为例。