TORSIONAL ACTUATOR AND SIX-LEGGED ROBOT USING THE TORSIONAL ACTUATOR

摘要

The present invention uses a material having a wire form whose length is adjustable so as to be flexible and able to provide great power, different from an existing electromagnetic motor or a piezoelectric actuator, thereby generating driving power, such as a torsion spring, by using a contraction phenomenon where the length shrinks when a temperature of such a material rises by a predetermined value by an external influence, and by using a memory effect of being changed to an initial state of the material, which is linear, wherein the torsion actuator able to operate in both directions is developed by control of materials wound in each opposite direction and is applied to a six-legged robot, thus being able to provide mobility for allowing autonomous driving to be performed as similarly as movements of an actual six-legged insect.