Development of artificial mastication system. Construction of one degree of freedom antagonistic muscle model WJ-O.

The authors have determined that there are 2 levels of control systems in mastication; the muscle control system as the lower level system and the mastication control system as the upper level system. And the authors made an experiment of the muscle control system as the first step of an artificial mastication system. The purpose of this paper is to propose the artificial muscle model which uses as DC motor under the control of position, velocity and force feedback.