First World Congress on Biomimetics & Artificial Muscles, Biomimetics 2002 9 11 December, 2002 Albuquerque Convention Center Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA To Purchase The Proceedings of The First World Congress on Biomimetics & Artificial Muscles, Please Contact: Mary Zsigmond: [email protected] To Purchase The Proceedings of The First World Congress on Biomimetics & Artificial Muscles, , P...

We developed a powered ankle-foot orthosis that uses artificial pneumatic muscles to produce active plantar flexor torque. The purpose of this study was to quantify the mechanical performance of the orthosis during human walking. Three subjects walked at a range of speeds wearing ankle-foot orthoses with either one or two artificial muscles working in parallel. The orthosis produced similar tot...

the muscle-like technology would be of enormous advantages for biomedical applications such as medical implants and human assist devices. ionic polymer metal composites (ipmcs) are one kind of biomimetic actuators. an ionic polymer metal composite composed from an ionomer with high ion exchange capacity that packed between two thin metal layers. in the present study we focused on the preparatio...