Visualization Bio-Mimetic Model of Muscular Drive

There exist large numbers of papers on muscle modeling for biomechanics or virtual reality but, in our opinion, they are inconvenient as a practicable method for muscular drive modeling for robotic joint or bio-mechanisms. We now propose a computational approach to modeling artificial muscle for robotic joint or bio-mechanisms drive. In the full paper, we explain in detail the proposed efficient method; in this abstract we just summarize briefly how we developed our visualization muscular drive model. This paper advocates a two-element model representing the complex mechanical properties of artificial muscles, the model utilizes Zajac´s method and neglects the effect of series elastic element, in addition, its three-dimensional geometry entity is designed. In order to build this muscle model rapidly, a software plugin is developed based on ADAMSTM that allows the creation of control module and multi-body dynamic system for use in bio-mechanisms. As an example, a bio-mimetic joint actuator for robots comprising four muscle models is built and analyzed. The results show that our visualization model of muscular drive has good simplicity and accuracy.