CN106364648B - A kind of controllable aquatic bio-propulsion device of rigidity - Google Patents

A kind of controllable aquatic bio-propulsion device of rigidity Download PDF

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CN106364648B
CN106364648B CN201610851210.0A CN201610851210A CN106364648B CN 106364648 B CN106364648 B CN 106364648B CN 201610851210 A CN201610851210 A CN 201610851210A CN 106364648 B CN106364648 B CN 106364648B
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杨懿琨
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The invention discloses a kind of controllable aquatic bio-propulsion device of rigidity, which includes:Bionic coatings apparatus main body, variation rigidity joint, joint connection framework, Biomimetic Fish tail fin, wherein:Bionic coatings apparatus main body be there are two or more stiffness-changing system composition, each stiffness-changing system is made of variation rigidity joint and joint connection framework;Joint connection framework in one system is rotatablely connected with movable members in the middle part of the variation rigidity joint of previous system, for the swing of bionical underwater propulsion unit;Variation rigidity joint changes magnetic field intensity by changing magnetic induction loop size of current, so as to change joint stiffness.When the present invention can make the robot carry out different task under same environment, stiffness by itself is adjusted, reaches the optimal propulsive performance of each task;Also it can change stiffness by itself under complex environment, improve the adaptability to environment;It advances in the period at one simultaneously, can respectively change the joint stiffness of bionic coatings device, to improve propulsive performance, reach best advanced state.

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A kind of controllable aquatic bio-propulsion device of rigidity
Technical field
The invention belongs to bio-robot technical fields, and in particular to a kind of controllable aquatic bio-propulsion device of rigidity, Underwater bionic coatings device stiffness variation can be controlled in real time, so as to improve the device of propulsive performance.
Background technology
Robot technology be collection bionics, theory of mechanisms, materialogy, control technology, electromechanical integration technology, sensing technology with Artificial intelligence technology is the important embodiment of National Industrial development level and scientific and technological strength in the modern science and technology of one, special There is not very strong application militarily.The research of bionical submariner device is even more with mobility strong, noise is low, is hidden in biocycle It the advantages such as is not easy to recognize in border, economy, sudden, duplicity, concealment and Gao Sheng is had more compared to traditional conventional sea warfare weapons Deposit rate.The bionical object of bionical underwater vehicle is varied, wherein the most universal with Fang Yu robots.Fish pass through more than one hundred million years Evolution, stiffness by itself can be changed by adjusting itself muscle, so as to be in complicated underwater environment and different fortune During dynamic state, it can ensure good kinetic characteristic.
Bionical underwater vehicle will adapt to underwater environment and efficiently accomplish task, need two challenges of reply:First, water Under environment complicated and changeable.Environment flowing is more complicated in water, for river, there is fixed water (flow) direction, while also has dark Stream and whirlpool, have stormy waves for lake, and for seawater, also larger stormy waves and tide.Therefore bionical submariner device There are higher fltting speed and propulsive force to prevent from being stranded;Second is that the completion of the more operations of multitask.Submariner device needs under water Several work is completed, different work proposes different requirements to its performance.Such as underwater inspection, there need to be higher propulsive efficiency, A wide range of travelling is completed under limited energy resource supply;For another example underwater investigation, both needs to have compared with high maneuverability, can pass through various obstacles It is rapid to reach the required destination investigated, and preferable stability and concealment are needed to prevent giving away one's position.
Research shows that the stiffness variation of bionical underwater propulsion unit influences whether movement needs and its propulsion of robot Performance.However the rigidity of traditional bionical underwater vehicle is fixed, and when carrying out single homework under water, can not be become according to real-time The underwater complex environment of change changes stiffness by itself, to be optimal travelling performance;And complete different motion in single water environment The bionical underwater vehicle of state tradition again can be by the immutable influence of stiffness by itself, it is difficult to accomplish under various motion states all Reach best travelling performance;In addition, for traditional bionical underwater propulsion unit, it is desirable to change rigidity generally by The modes such as more conversion materials, inefficiency, and rigidity cannot be changed in a swing period, propulsive performance is improved limited.
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The purpose of the present invention is to solve above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and bionic coatings device is enable to swim By changing rigidity in each period in dynamic, adjustment bionic coatings device is in the same direction to its direction of propulsion in water in swing period With reversed amount of force and the mode of action, its propulsive performance is effectively improved.The controllable water of a kind of rigidity proposed by the present invention Lower bionic coatings device can be while robot motion, in one cycle, by changing the firm of different variation rigidity joints Degree simulates the contraction and diastole of the muscle of fish in nature, and bionic coatings device is enable to be presented when a cycle is swung in water Go out different travelling postures, so that reaching most suitable rigidity in the period for being beneficial to positive propulsive force generation, and be unfavorable for just The cyclomorphosis rigidity generated to propulsive force makes the resistance of generation minimum, so as to improve the propulsion capability in a period of flapping. The stiffness variation in each variation rigidity joint of the present invention can be it is synchronous can also be it is independent, can by each joint into Row different-stiffness changes, and improves the propulsive performance of bionical underwater propulsion mechanism.
The controllable aquatic bio-propulsion device of a kind of rigidity proposed by the present invention, it is bionical to push away including bionic coatings apparatus main body Include a section or two sections and Yi Shang stiffness-changing system and Biomimetic Fish tail fin into apparatus main body, outside the bionic coatings apparatus main body There is waterproof covering package;Any one section stiffness-changing system is formed by connecting by variation rigidity joint and joint connection framework, described Variation rigidity joint is by iron core, magnetic induction loop, magnetic rheology elastic body (MRE) ring, low-carbon steel disc, permanent magnet and aluminum connector group Into, wherein, for magnetic induction loop around iron core, permanent magnet center passes through iron core, and compresses Zhoucheng outer ring and rotational parts, permanent magnet One constant magnetic field is provided, variation rigidity joint is made to be in magnetic field environment at the very start, when changing coil magnetic field intensity, by The magnetic field of permanent magnet and the magnetic field joint effect variation rigidity joint of coil, so as to which the rigidity in variation rigidity joint is made to realize positive losing side To variation or be not added with permanent magnet, then without magnetic field environment at the beginning, when changing coil magnetic field intensity, can only realize just The positive change of degree, magnetic rheology elastic body (MRE) ring and low-carbon steel disc are staggeredly sleeved on outside magnetic induction loop, can be big by adjusting electric current It is small to adjust magnetic field, joint torsion stiffness, the upper and lower ends aluminums connection in variation rigidity joint are changed by the variation of magnetic flux Head is connected with joint connection framework one end;With being connected in the middle part of another variation rigidity joint in the middle part of the connection framework other end of joint.
Further, the bionic coatings apparatus main body is in Biomimetic Fish shape.
Further, the variation rigidity joint aluminum connector can be different according to the requirement of bionical underwater propulsion unit, if Different connection modes is counted, aluminum connector can also be clamped on frame articulation, can be also fixedly connected with frame by frame.
Further, the variation rigidity joint is cylinder, cuboid or cone shape.
Further, the Biomimetic Fish caudal-fin models are rectangle, crescent, trapezoidal or fan-shaped.
Beneficial effects of the present invention are:The controllable bionic coatings device of rigidity of the present invention passes through the change of rigidity under the period of motion Change and improve its propulsive performance.In one cycle, water is identical with robot direction of travel to the reaction force of bionic coatings device When, the rigidity of bionic coatings device can be become most just when the propulsive force generated under this rigidity is maximum;And when water is to bionical When the reaction force of propulsion device is opposite with robot direction of travel, the rigidity of bionic coatings device can be become to minimum, that is, existed Generated propulsive force is minimum under this rigidity, so as to improve the propulsive performance of bionic coatings device.It can be when promoting to not Change different-stiffness with joint, enhance bionic coatings device to the adaptability of environment and to cruising, turning, accelerating etc. times The quick fulfillment capability of business, is attained by optimal propulsive performance under varying environment and task.
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Fig. 1 is that structure of the controllable aquatic bio-propulsion device of rigidity of the present invention containing two sections and two section more than stiffness-changing systems is shown It is intended to, wherein, 1 is variation rigidity joint, and 2 be joint connection framework, and 3 be Biomimetic Fish Fin;
Fig. 2 is structure diagram of the controllable aquatic bio-propulsion device of rigidity of the present invention containing a section stiffness-changing system;
Internal structure schematic diagrams of the Fig. 3 for the variation rigidity joint according to one embodiment of the invention, wherein, 4 connect for aluminum Head, 5 be mild steel end cap, and 6 be low-carbon steel disc, and 7 be magnetic rheology elastic body (MRE) ring, and 8 be permanent magnet, and 9 be iron core, and 10 be magnetic Feel coil, 11 be ball bearing, and 12 be rotational parts (mild steel), and 13 be the line of magnetic induction;
Fig. 4 is the structure diagram according to the variation rigidity joint of one embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 5 is the sectional view according to the variation rigidity joint of one embodiment of the invention.
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To make the objectives, technical solutions, and advantages of the present invention clearer, below in conjunction with specific embodiment, and reference Attached drawing, the present invention is described in more detail.
For containing the controllable aquatic bio-propulsion device of rigidity of two sections and two section more than stiffness-changing systems, Fig. 1 is this hair The structure diagram that the bright controllable aquatic bio-propulsion device of rigidity contains, as shown in Figure 1, the controllable bionic coatings device of the rigidity is It is made of Biomimetic Fish tail fin 3 and several stiffness-changing systems, each stiffness-changing system includes:Variation rigidity joint 1 is connected with joint Frame 2.Wherein:
The stiffness-changing system is that have variation rigidity joint both ends to be connected with joint link end, before the link of joint It holds and is connected with rotational parts in the middle part of the variation rigidity joint of another group of stiffness-changing system.It is two or more since in this way With regard to that can relatively rotate between stiffness-changing system.The front end of Biomimetic Fish tail fin and the variation rigidity of last group of stiffness-changing system close Section middle part rotational parts are connected.It can all produce relative rotation between each system when swinging, be pushed away so as to fulfill bionical in this way Into.
Fig. 2 is formed for one stiffness-changing system and Biomimetic Fish tail fin, principle with saved containing two sections and two more than change it is firm Degree system is identical with the structural principle that bionic caudal fin forms.
Fig. 3 is the sectional view in variation rigidity joint.Variation rigidity joint is by aluminum connector 4, mild steel end cap 5, low-carbon steel disc 6th, magnetic rheology elastic body (MRE) ring 7, permanent magnet (can should not permanent magnet changed certain thickness low-carbon steel disc into) 8, iron core 9, Magnetic induction loop 10, ball bearing 11 and rotational parts (mild steel) 12 form.Wherein, at the top of aluminum connector frame is connect with joint Frame end connects, and bottom is connect with mild steel end cap.The mild steel end cap at variation rigidity joint both ends secures the position of iron core, iron Ball bearing is cased among core.It is interference fitted on the outside of ball bearing with rotational parts.Rotational parts up and down both sides and permanent magnet (or Thick low-carbon steel disc) contact.In mild steel end cap and permanent magnet (or thick low-carbon steel disc) intermediate, winding multiturn magnetic induction line on the outside of iron core Circle.On the outside of magnetic induction loop, magnetic rheology elastic body (MRE) ring and low-carbon steel disc are staggeredly placed.Entirely variation rigidity joint is external Part is all bonded.13 direction of the line of magnetic induction can be direction as shown in Figure 3 or opposite direction.Line of magnetic induction direction with Magnetic induction loop winding direction is related.
When Biomimetic Fish tail fin is swung, joint connection framework can drive rotational parts to rotate, and rotational parts can make entirely to become Rigidity joint twists.Under fixed environment, certain swing angle and frequency, the angle of variation rigidity joint torsion is only It is related with the reaction force of water.Change magnetic field intensity by changing magnetic induction loop size of current, further change magnetorheological bullet Property body rigidity, so as to actively change joint stiffness, simulate the variation of fish muscle rigidity when moving about, it is most suitable so as to find With the rigidity of current environment, frequency and the amplitude of oscillation, the propulsive performance of bionic coatings device is improved.
When bionic coatings device carries out operation under complex environment, it is firm joint can be changed by changing magnetic field intensity Degree, so as to change the swimming characteristics of entire bionic coatings device in water, improves its adaptive capacity to environment and swimming characteristics.And work as Bionic coatings device is being cruised, is being turned or when linear accelerating is when tasks, can be reached by adjusting the variation of its rigidity To the most suitable rigidity of each task, cruising, turning or when linear accelerating is attained by the optimal of bionic coatings device to realize Performance.
Meanwhile the stiffness variation of each stiffness-changing system of the variation rigidity aquatic bio-propulsion device can be consistent Or it is respective independent.Therefore, this variation rigidity aquatic bio-propulsion device can change difference in a swing period The rigidity in joint, makes bionic coatings device when swinging, and reaches the most suitable of each joint in the period that propulsive force is contributed to generate Rigidity, to improve propulsive force, and it is minimum to generate opposite force in the period modulation rigidity for generating opposite force, so as to reduce resistance, And then improve the propulsive performance of variable rigidity bionic propulsion device.
Fig. 4 is the 3-D view in the variation rigidity joint, and Fig. 5 is the three dimensional sectional view in the variation rigidity joint.
In short, the operation principle of the controllable aquatic bio-propulsion device of rigidity is:It is each to change to change magnetic field intensity The rigidity in joint, and further change the kinetic characteristic of robot by the stiffness variation of bionic coatings device, so as to enhance The propulsive performance of robot.
To sum up, it is long can to improve the long endurance that robot moves under water for the controllable aquatic bio-propulsion device of rigidity of the present invention Voyage ability, while but also with high speed, the ability of high motor-driven propulsion, and the change of different joint stiffness can be passed through in one cycle Change the propulsive force for improving each period, propulsive performance can greatly be improved.
Particular embodiments described above has carried out the purpose of the present invention, technical solution and advantageous effect further in detail It describes in detail bright, it should be understood that the above is only a specific embodiment of the present invention, is not intended to restrict the invention, it is all Within the spirit and principles in the present invention, any modification, equivalent substitution, improvement and etc. done should be included in the guarantor of the present invention Within the scope of shield.

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1. a kind of controllable aquatic bio-propulsion device of rigidity, it is characterised in that:Including bionic coatings apparatus main body, bionic coatings Apparatus main body includes a section or two sections and Yi Shang stiffness-changing system and Biomimetic Fish tail fin, has outside the bionic coatings apparatus main body Waterproof covering wraps up;Any one section stiffness-changing system is formed by connecting by variation rigidity joint and joint connection framework, the variation rigidity Joint is made of iron core, magnetic induction loop, magnetic rheology elastic body (MRE) ring, low-carbon steel disc, permanent magnet and aluminum connector, wherein, Magnetic induction loop is around iron core, and permanent magnet center passes through iron core, and compresses bearing outer ring and rotational parts, and permanent magnet provides one Constant magnetic field makes variation rigidity joint be in magnetic field environment at the very start, when changing coil magnetic field intensity, by permanent magnet Magnetic field and the magnetic field joint effect variation rigidity joint of coil, so as to which the rigidity in variation rigidity joint is made to realize the change of positive negative direction Change or be not added with permanent magnet, then without magnetic field environment at the beginning, when changing coil magnetic field intensity, can only realize rigidity just To variation, magnetic rheology elastic body (MRE) ring and low-carbon steel disc are staggeredly sleeved on outside magnetic induction loop, can be adjusted by adjusting size of current Magnetic field is saved, joint torsion stiffness is changed by the variation of magnetic flux, the upper and lower ends aluminum connector in variation rigidity joint is with closing Section connection framework one end is connected;With being connected in the middle part of another variation rigidity joint in the middle part of the connection framework other end of joint.
2. a kind of controllable aquatic bio-propulsion device of rigidity according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:It is described bionical to push away It is in Biomimetic Fish shape into apparatus main body.
3. a kind of controllable aquatic bio-propulsion device of rigidity according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:The variation rigidity Joint aluminum connector can design different connection modes, aluminum connector according to the requirement difference of bionical underwater propulsion unit It can be clamped with being fixedly connected on frame articulation or with frame or by frame.
4. a kind of controllable aquatic bio-propulsion device of rigidity according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:The variation rigidity Joint is cylinder, cuboid or cone shape.
5. a kind of controllable aquatic bio-propulsion device of rigidity according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:The Biomimetic Fish Caudal-fin models are rectangle, crescent, trapezoidal or fan-shaped.
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