Actuators, Volume 11, Issue 6

This paper presents a model predictive approach to the energy-aware control of tasks’ execution in an assembly line. The proposed algorithm takes into account both the need for optimizing the assembly line operations (in terms of the minimizati...

The present study analyzed a computational model to evaluate the electromechanical properties of the AlN, BaTiO₃, ZnO, PVDF, and KNN-NTK thin-films. With the rise in sustainable energy options for health monitoring devices and smart wearable sensors,...

Soft pneumatic actuators offer great advantages compared to rigid ones, particularly due to their compliant nature, which allows them to adapt to uncertainties in the environment. As such, they enable human-safe interactions and are often applied to...

In this overview of recent developments in the field of biorobotics we cover the developments in materials such as the use of polyester fabric being used as artificial skin and the start of whole new ways to actuate artificial muscles as a whole. In...

Model order reduction techniques can be used during the operation phase of a product to generate virtual sensor outputs and enable diagnosis and monitoring systems. This contribution shows an approach with the example of an active magnetic bearing. T...

Many patients with upper limb defects desire myoelectric prosthetic hands, but they are still not used for some reasons. One of the most significant reasons is its external appearance, which has the discomfort caused by the structural difference betw...

An exosuit is a wearable robot that assists the muscular strength of a human that wears it by using multiple wires with similar functions to human muscles. This study focuses on the development of a series elastic tendon actuator (SETA) for the actua...

The traditional magnetorheological (MR) damper subject to the limited space has shortcomings such as small damping force, narrow dynamic range and low adaptability. In this study, a new MR damper with folded resistance gaps and bending magnetic circu...

In this paper, an opposing jet is applied to the space shuttle arc leading edge and the lifting body cone leading edge in the hypersonic condition of the rarefied flow field. The DSMC numerical algorithm is used to simulate and analyze the underlying...

Repairing cracks in the concrete of a building is very important to ensure the safety of a nuclear power plant. However, repair work in areas with very strong radiation is very difficult. Many robots have been proposed to solve this problem. However,...

With the wide application of hydraulic servo technology in control systems, the requirement of hydraulic servo position control performance is greater and greater. In order to solve the problems of slow response, poor precision, and weak anti-interfe...

A human machine interface (HMI) is presented to switch on/off lights according to the head left/right yaw rotation. The HMI consists of a cap, which can acquire the brain’s electrical activity (i.e., an electroencephalogram, EEG) sampled at 500...

Thanks to their outstanding properties, in the last few years Dielectric Elastomer Actuators (DEAs) have increasingly attracted the interest of the scientific community and generated a surge in the effort devoted to their industrialization. Compared...

In view of the complex structure and inaccurate positioning capabilities of the existing panoramic scanning system, a panoramic scanning device based on a piezoelectric ceramic stack actuator and friction transmission was designed. In our model, the...

Fish-like robots have been widely used in intelligent surveillance and investigation because of their high swimming efficiency and low traveling noise. Numerical simulations are usually selected to simulate the movement modes and hydrodynamic charact...

This study evaluates the vibration isolation performance of an adaptive magnetorheological elastomer (MRE)-based dynamic vibration absorber (MRE-DVA) for mitigating the high frequency vibrations (100–250 Hz) of target devices. A simple and effe...

The active structural control (ASC) has been applied to base-isolated buildings to achieve a high-damping system. The critical step for designing an ASC system is selecting control parameters and isolation parameters that satisfy the design restricti...

Transonic flight has high economic benefits, but the appearance of transonic buffet limits the flight envelope. The shock control bump currently used for transonic buffet suppression tends to degrade the aerodynamic performance of the non-buffeting s...

With the rapid development of DC power systems and the increasing demand for DC circuit breakers, electromagnetic repulsive drives-based Thomson coil actuators (TCA) are widely investigated to provide the high-speed actuating required for ultra-fast...

This paper presents a novel cam-based variable stiffness actuator (VSA). It significantly differs from its counterparts in that the external load distributes on its two motors with a small difference. It is a feasible method to improve VSA’s ou...

(1) Flatfoot is a common malformation in both children and adults, in which a proper arch fails to develop. This study aimed to see how over-the-counter running shoes improved the gait patterns of flatfoot patients. (2) Methods: Three healthy flatfoo...

Interconnected systems are widespread in modern technological systems. Designing a reliable control strategy requires modeling and analysis of the system, which can be a complicated, or even impossible, task in some cases. However, current technologi...

Both the position and force control of robots are needed in industrial manufacturing, such as in assembly and grinding, etc. In this paper, we concentrate on two issues. One is the system oscillation in traditional hybrid force–position control...

This study proposes a novel magnetic circuit design to reduce the size of horizontal linear vibration motors (HLVMs) used in vehicle touchscreens. The HLVM prototype uses two thick permanent magnets to create a magnetic circuit below the voice coil;...

This study was designed to explore the control effect of pulsed arc discharge plasma actuation on the incident shock wave/boundary layer interaction (ISWBLI). Research was conducted on an ISWBLI flow field with 10 kHz single-channel pulsed arc discha...

The main objective of this paper is to propose, design, and control a novel dual servo magnetic levitation stage which is precise and vacuum compatible. The dual servo mechanism, comprising a coarse stage and a fine stage, was applied to a magnetic l...

With the continuous development of wireless sensor network (WSN) technology, WSN has gradually become one of the key technologies of the Internet, and is widely used in indoor target location technology. However, the obstacles will have a great influ...

The control of heavy-haul trains has always been the focus of China’s railway transportation development. One key challenge is the coordination of electric braking and air braking control when the electric-air combined braking is applied on lon...

Frequency response functions (FRFs) of rotor systems can be used as indicator functions for condition monitoring. Component-wise FRFs are of high interest to locate errors in the case of defects. To enable continuous monitoring, measurements should b...

Human–machine cooperative driving is an important stage in the development of autonomous driving technology. However, in emergencies, the problem of vehicle stability control for human–computer cooperative autonomous vehicles is still wor...

Magnetorheological fluids (MRFs) are composites of micron-sized and/or nano-sized Fe particles and nonmagnetic oils, and their rheological properties change with changes in the magnetic field. To distinguish between material and mechanical deteriorat...

This paper focuses on the development and demonstration of a novel blade morphing system within a whirl tower facility. The scope is to investigate the behavior of the proposed architecture under representative loads, demonstrating its capability to...