...Scott Kennedy; Nicholas Vlajic; Edmon Perkins Shape memory alloys are a class of soft actuators that can recover strain through a phase change and are capable of biomimetic motion. Despite the advantages of these alloys (e.g., high strength-to-weight ratios, inexpensive cost, and small form factor...

... ,” Soft Rob. , 9 ( 5 ), pp. 1001 – 1013 . 10.1089/soro.2021.0016 [7] Kan , Z. , Pang , C. , Zhang , Y. , Yang , Y. , and Wang , M. Y. , 2022 , “ Soft Actuator With Programmable Design: Modeling, Prototyping, and Applications ,” Soft Rob. , 9 ( 5 ), pp. 907 – 925...

...Abdelrahman Khalil; Mohammad Al Saaideh; Mohammad Al Janaideh; Micky Rakotondrabe In this article, we investigate how to identify faulty sensors in piezoelectric actuators used for precise positioning. Four sensors are distributed along the actuator’s cantilever structure to measure the deflection...

... Velocity V N in { n } and V in { a } Velocity VN in {n} and V in {a} The robot actuator velocities ω 1 , ω 2 , ω 3 , and ω 4 are the independent speeds. All other speeds are dependent on the wheel speeds. The purpose of deriving the inverse kinematic equations is to obtain...

...J. C. Peyton Jones; A. Mitrovic; G. M. Clayton Dual-stage actuators, which combine two actuators with different characteristics, have gained interest due to their large-range, high-resolution positioning capabilities. Control of such systems is challenging because it requires balancing the relative...

...% energy consumption for the conditions of the study. Email: a.ghorbanpour@csuohio.edu Email: h.richter@csuohio.edu 30 04 2021 30 09 2021 30 09 2021 19 10 2021 actuator energy storage motion controls optimal controls robotics National Science Foundation...

... A. L. Garcia and M. Sorrentino contributed equally to the paper. 20 08 2020 09 01 2021 07 02 2021 11 03 2021 actuator collision avoidance haptics human–machine interfaces rehabilitation Visual impairment is a continually growing problem, affecting over 3.2...

...Rui Xu; Miaolei Zhou; Xiaobo Tan Hysteresis is a nonlinear characteristic ubiquitously exhibited by smart material sensors and actuators, such as piezoelectric actuators and shape memory alloys. The Prandtl–Ishlinskii (PI) operator is widely used to describe hysteresis of smart material systems due...

...Prateek Shah; Roberto Horowitz The multi actuator drive technology was unveiled by Seagate in December 2017, a breakthrough that can almost double the data performance of the future generation hard disk drives. This technology will equip drives with dual actuators operating on the same pivot point...

... that provide actuation. The integrated model is assembled to simulate a physical prototype and then validated based upon physical experiments to provide calibration. Simulation results evaluate the validated model performing perching with different gripper-perch alignments. The simulation environment developed...

...Amir Hosein Zamanian; David Y. Son; Paul S. Krueger; Edmond Richer In this paper, we established an analytical model that avoids extensive numerical computation for the analysis of a hydraulically amplified dielectric elastomer actuator. This actuator comprises a thin elastomer shell filled...