White Paper On Design Of Bionical Limbs

But those would be white papers prepared by someone else....

Will you want us to do your work for you after you get a job, too?

I recommend that you contact Lego, the manufacturer of Bionicle.

I suspect you should use the term bionic limbs. Bionical is not a word and bionicle is a trade name for a toy.

The entire useage of bionic has become corrupted by science fiction. The bionic limbs of science fiction are in the advance research stage now, with some field units out.

They refer to artificial limbs that have a brain to limb interface that allow the same degree of control as our natural limbs. This is the holy grail of bionic research and it is still a long way off. Simple on-off limb actions have been achieved but proportional control with limb to mind feedback has not. Visual feedback allow the extant proportional control to be modulated to some degree.

There is a huge amount of research into this due to the large numbers of amputees from wars and accidents.

I suggest you look down these links, and go from there

bionic limbs excluding bionicle

I've always imagined the perfect bionic limb would use tiny inline electric or hydraulic motors attached to woven nylon fiber cords in the shape of the human muscles and the reversible motors would simple wind up the cord like those old balsa airplane rubberband 'motors' thus pulling the appendage in the same way that normal muscles do and relax by reversing.

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Motor in the middle of the cords...

This would allow you to exactly imitate the outer shape of the appendage with padded silicone 'skin'. Bolt the motor to the 'bone' and attach the ends of the cords to the normal tendon attachment points.