The Honeybee＇s Protrusible Glossa is a Compliant Mechanism
The Honeybee＇s Protrusible Glossa is a Compliant Mechanism作者机构：School of Engineering and Technology China University of Geosciences (Beijing) Beijing 100083 China Division of lntelligent and Biomechanical Systems State Key Laboratory of Tribology Department of Mechanical Engineering Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China
出 版 物：《Journal of Bionic Engineering》 (仿生工程学报（英文版）)
年 卷 期：2017年第14卷第4期
页 面：607-615页
核心收录：
学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 0831[工学-生物医学工程（可授工学、理学、医学学位）] 090504[农学-特种经济动物饲养（含：蚕、蜂等）] 0905[农学-畜牧学] 08[工学] 09[农学] 0835[工学-软件工程] 0836[工学-生物工程] 0702[理学-物理学] 081202[工学-计算机软件与理论] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）]
基 金：funded by the National Natural Science Funding of China Research Project of the State Key Laboratory of Tribology
主 题：honeybee glossal membrane compliant mechanism stiffness evaluation
摘 要：Many biological structures can perform highly-dexterous actions by using dynamic surfaces. To deal with the contradictive demands of high feeding efficiency and low energy expenditure during nectar feeding, the glossal surface of a honeybee un- dergoes shape changes, in which glossal hairs erect together with segment elongation in a drinking cycle. In this paper, we extracted a transmission link embedded in the glossa from postmortem examination and found that the compliance of the in- tersegmental membranes provides more possibilities for this highly kinematic synchronicity. According to the morphing phe- nomena of honeybee＇s glossa, we proposed a compliant mechanism model to predict the deformation behavior of honeybee considering elastic properties of the glossal intersegmental membranes. The increase of membrane stiffness may improve the capacity of elastic potential energy transfer, but will still result in the increase of mass. An index is introduced to evaluate the contradiction for optimizing structural parameters. This work may arouse new prospects for conceptual design of mi- cro-mechanical systems equipped with bio-inspired compliant mechanisms.
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