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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Actuator array"”.
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Reduction of dimensionality of a cellular actuator array for driving a robotic hand
… to explore an alternative to today's robot actuators, a new approach to artificial muscle actuator design and control is presented. The objective of this research is to coordinate the multitude of artificial muscle actuator axes for a large DOF (degree of freedom) robotic system based on …
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PINS : a haptic computer interface system
The research goal was to develop a dense array of discreet vertical actuators as an input and output device with haptic feedback for Human Computer Interaction (HCI). This expands upon the current research of table surfaces as medium for HCI by adding a third dimension that both a user and a …
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Motor Design and Control for Scalable Distributed Actuation
… associated with integrating large numbers of actuators. This thesis explores the hardware and control development for a motor architecture designed for distributed actuation, where many controllable degrees of freedom are required across macro scale structures. Availability of a low cost and …
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Direct numerical simulation of microjets for turbulent boundary layer control
… simulation approach is used to simulate an array of MEMS slot jets in a turbulent boundary layer for the purposes of flow control. Initial studies were used to first ascertain the correctness of the model and give insight into the performance characteristics of the devices. To this end, a …
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Modeling and Validation of S-Drive: A Nestable Piezoelectric Actuator
… introduces a novel, nestable piezoelectric actuator, called the s-drive. In the s-drive actuator, the piezoelectric material is sandwiched between two conductors, and the electrodes are configured such that an application of a voltage causes an extension on two beams and compression on the …
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Plasma-coupled microcombustion
… dielectric barrier discharge (FE-DBD) actuator in conditions relevant to hydrogen combustion using particle-in-cell simulations. Quantities of interest such as momentum transfer, radical generation, and Joule heating are calculated and the effects of gas temperature and composition are …