Análise dinâmica da elevação de panturrilha para dimensionamento de músculos pneumáticos

Abstract

The concern with the poor population is something increasingly present in current society. In this way, assistive technology is being employed in an attempt to promote functionality and independence to the public with disabilities, so that research in the field of exoskeletons and Orthotics encompasses one of the facets of assistive technology. On this, the present work aims to carry out an analysis of the lifting movement of the calf to a scaling active ankle orthosis with pneumatic muscle actuators. This project having as purpose the description of the elevation of the calf to the torque analysis and sizing of pneumatic muscle actuators, with the distance great for your use. After mechanical modeling describing elevation of calf and comparison with experimental data was found similar results in terms, the behavior of the function as scale, in addition to the discretion of the function translates the torque applied by the pneumatic muscle, and thus optimize the distance from the installation of the same, given the objectives proposed for the work