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Actuators, Volume 11, Issue 7

2022 July - 32 articles

Cover Story: We propose a hybrid system in which the engine torque converted by the transmission is combined with an electric motor torque. This system can be assumed to be a servo model system with multiple inputs and outputs and analyzed to obtain the optimal operation algorithm. In this study, the effects of changing the electric motor and final gear ratios on the driving performance of a rear-wheel-drive parallel hybrid system for optimization were investigated. The simulation results show not only that the optimum settings can be obtained by changing the final and electric motor reduction ratios on the evaluation circuit, but also that the optimum values vary across different speed ranges on different circuits. View this paper
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Articles (32)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,972 Views
19 Pages

Design of an Intuitive Master for Improving Teleoperation Task Performance Using the Functional Separation of Actuators: Movement and Gravity Compensation

  • Sang Uk Chon,
  • Jaehong Seo,
  • Jungyeong Kim,
  • Sangchul Han and ,
  • Sangshin Park,
  • Jin Tak Kim,
  • Jinhyeon Kim and
  • Jungsan Cho
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

21 July 2022

Teleoperation, in which humans and robots work together to improve work performance, is growing explosively. However, the work performance of teleoperation is not yet excellent. Master–slave systems with different kinematics and workspaces need...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mechanism Design and Control for Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,812 Views
31 Pages

20 July 2022

Low-frequency oscillations are a primary issue for integrating a renewable source into the grid. The objective of this study was to find sensitive parameters that cause low-frequency oscillations and design a Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gr...

(This article belongs to the Section Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,534 Views
12 Pages

Electroelastic Coupled-Wave Scattering and Dynamic Stress Concentration of Piezoceramics Containing Regular N-Sided Holes

  • Jiang Lin,
  • Chuanping Zhou,
  • Xiao Han,
  • Yongping Gong and ,
  • Jiawei Fan,
  • Junqi Bao,
  • Huawei Ji,
  • Jing Ni and
  • Weihua Zhou
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

19 July 2022

In this paper, the calculation method of dynamic stress concentration around piezoelectric ceramics containing regular n-sided holes under the action of electroelastic coupling wave was studied, and it was applied to promising barium calcium zirconat...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuator Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,023 Views
20 Pages

19 July 2022

This paper combines a synthetic jet actuator (SJA) and a leeward porous coating to alter the aerodynamic forces on a cylinder in crossflow at Re = 4.2 × 104. While SJAs and porous coatings are known to be effective flow control methods in isola...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
8,673 Views
12 Pages

3D Printing of Silicone Elastomers for Soft Actuators

  • Jiachen Li,
  • Shengpeng Wu,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Kaiqi Ma and
  • Guoqing Jin

18 July 2022

A procedure for 3D printing of silicone elastomers with a direct ink writing (DIW) process has demonstrated great potential in areas as diverse as flexible electronics, medical devices, and soft robotics. In this report, we propose a comprehensive gu...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuator Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,476 Views
16 Pages

18 July 2022

This experimental research focuses on the impacts of submerged synthetic jets on a fully-developed turbulent boundary layer (TBL) under a drag reduction working case. Two-dimensional velocity vectors in the flow field are captured with the aid of a p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Active Flow Control: Recent Advances in Fundamentals and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,450 Views
12 Pages

Adaptive Deployable Thin Spherical Shell Reflectors

  • Carl Johan G. Nielsen,
  • Dalong Tian,
  • Kainan Wang and
  • André Preumont

18 July 2022

This paper begins with a quick survey of potential space applications and a brief review of previous experiments on the shape control of a spherical shell reflector with a thin film of PVDF-TrFE. Next, the problem of thermal sensitivity is addressed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Piezoelectric and Electrostrictive Materials in Mechatronics, Precision Engineering and Vibration Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,018 Views
13 Pages

The Improved Deeplabv3plus Based Fast Lane Detection Method

  • Zhong Wang,
  • Yin Zhao,
  • Yang Tian,
  • Yahui Zhang and
  • Landa Gao

18 July 2022

Lane detection is one of the most basic and essential tasks for autonomous vehicles. Therefore, the fast and accurate recognition of lanes has become a hot topic in industry and academia. Deep learning based on a neural network is also a common metho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design, Control, and Optimization of Powertrain for New Energy Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,312 Views
17 Pages

18 July 2022

In this paper, a novel asymmetrical bistable short mover permanent magnet actuator is presented. The comparisons between the presented machine and the asymmetrical structure bistable permanent magnet actuator are introduced. The static and dynamic ch...

(This article belongs to the Section High Torque/Power Density Actuators)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,458 Views
17 Pages

17 July 2022

To maintain the safe operation and acceptable performance of robot manipulators when faults occur inside the system, fault-tolerant control must deal differently uncertainties and disturbances, especially with the occurrence of loss-effective faults....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamics and Control of Robot Manipulators)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,755 Views
19 Pages

16 July 2022

This paper addressed the optimal policy selection problem of attacker and sensor in cyber-physical systems (CPSs) under denial of service (DoS) attacks. Since the sensor and the attacker have opposite goals, a two-player zero-sum game is introduced t...

(This article belongs to the Section Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,596 Views
23 Pages

16 July 2022

This paper presents the dynamic formulation of an artificial-muscle-driven and computed-muscle–force control for the planar locomotion of a snake robot. The snake robot uses a series of antagonistic pneumatic artificial muscles, assembled at th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Muscles for Biorobotics: Study, Application and Future Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,755 Views
15 Pages

H∞ Control for ICPS with Hybrid-Triggered Mechanism Encountering Stealthy DoS Jamming Attacks

  • Mufeng Wang,
  • Yangyang Geng,
  • Jingpei Wang,
  • Ke Liu and ,
  • Xin Che and
  • Qiang Wei
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 July 2022

In recent years, with the upgrading of the attack technology, stealthy DoS jamming attacks have become the primary factor to threaten the security of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS). Considering the complex industrial scenarios of ICPS, whic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,025 Views
13 Pages

Preliminary Assessment of an FBG-Based Landing Gear Weight on Wheel System

  • Angela Brindisi,
  • Cristian Vendittozzi,
  • Lidia Travascio,
  • Luigi Di Palma and ,
  • Marika Belardo,
  • Michele Ignarra,
  • Vincenzo Fiorillo and
  • Antonio Concilio
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

14 July 2022

Weight-on-Wheels (WoW) systems are aimed at indicating if the aircraft weight is loading onto the landing gear and its wheels, even partially. These systems are an integral part of the actuation system for safety-critical applications and shall provi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aerospace Mechanisms and Actuation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,564 Views
18 Pages

13 July 2022

In this paper, dual RRT optimization is proposed to solve the formation shape generation problem for a large number of MUVs. Since large numbers of MUVs are prone to collision during formation shape generation, this paper considers the use of path pl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Control and Robotic System in Path Planning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,863 Views
23 Pages

11 July 2022

A ball screw type energy regenerative active suspension under fractional order PID control is proposed and studied in order to improve the vibration damping performance of the suspension. A mathematical model of the energy regenerative actuator is es...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vehicle Modeling and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,277 Views
13 Pages

9 July 2022

The uncertainty of emissivity has a major effect on the accuracy of a pyrometer in billet temperature measurement. In order to eliminate the influence of emissivity, we place a reflector with two apertures at the front of a pyrometer. The two apertur...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuators for Manufacturing Systems)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,185 Views
10 Pages

PVDF Energy Harvester for Prolonging the Battery Life of Cardiac Pacemakers

  • Christopher Hu,
  • Kamran Behdinan and
  • Rasool Moradi-Dastjerdi

8 July 2022

Patients who have an implantable cardiac pacemaker that survive beyond the operational life of the device require replacement surgeries that increase healthcare costs and may possibly introduce post-operative complications such as infection. In this...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuator Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,760 Views
24 Pages

7 July 2022

The design and control of baby chairs have attracted great interest due to children’s increasing consumption market. As a human-robot interface, the features of baby chairs, such as their flexibility, comfortableness, safety, etc., are importan...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Robot Control in Human-Machine Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,283 Views
23 Pages

7 July 2022

Evaluating the impact of morphing devices in terms of actuation energy is a promising approach to quantify, from the earliest stages of wing design, the convenience of active camber morphing compared to the use of conventional control surfaces. A mor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aerospace Mechanisms and Actuation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,382 Views
16 Pages

Development of an Automatic Air-Driven 3D-Printed Spinal Posture Corrector

  • G. M. Asadullah,
  • Md. Hazrat Ali,
  • Kotaro Hashikura,
  • Md Abdus Samad Kamal and
  • Kou Yamada

4 July 2022

Billions of people are using smartphones and computers with poor posture. A careless attitude towards spinal posture could be dangerous for long-term spinal health, leading eventually to curvature of the spine. Ignoring this fact and its treatment at...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuators for Medical Instruments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,002 Views
17 Pages

4 July 2022

Recently, cost-effective ionic polymer metal composite (IPMC) membranes coated with novel metals (viz., Ag, Au, or Pt) have exhibited excellent bending actuation performance, which was electrically stimulated. Herein, we have developed an IPMC membra...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuator Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,482 Views
12 Pages

2 July 2022

Detecting the faults in hydraulic systems in advance is difficult owing to the complexity associated with such systems. Hence, it is necessary to investigate the different fault modes and analyze the system reliability in order to establish a method...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aerospace Mechanisms and Actuation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,706 Views
21 Pages

Safety Analysis, Design and Evaluation of 2-DOF Parallel Lifting Actuator on Stereo Parking Robot

  • Jingang Jiang,
  • Qiyun Tan,
  • Tianhua He,
  • Jianpeng Sun and
  • Jiawei Zhang

29 June 2022

Stereo garage technology can effectively alleviate the problem of parking difficulties, but the safety problems of its actuators, via which the core of stereo parking function can be realized, seriously affect its promotion and further development. I...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Designing, Sensing, Instrumentation, Diagnosis, Controlling, and Integration of Actuators in Digital Manufacturing Especially in Aerospace Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,798 Views
11 Pages

29 June 2022

In this study, we developed a superconducting magnetic bearing using a permanent repulsive magnet. A repulsive magnetic levitation system with a permanent magnet can generate a strong levitation force in the absence of a power supply. However, it is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies in Superconducting Actuators)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,407 Views
29 Pages

27 June 2022

A scheme for modelling and controlling a two-dimensional positioning system with a topology-optimized compliant mechanism is presented. The system is designed to ensure a relatively large workspace and exhibit robustness against system nonlinearities...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Actuating, Sensing, Control, and Instrumentation for Ultra Precision Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,059 Views
11 Pages

Data-Based Security Fault Tolerant Iterative Learning Control under Denial-of-Service Attacks

  • Zengwei Li,
  • Changren Zhou,
  • Weiwei Che,
  • Chao Deng and
  • Xiaozheng Jin

26 June 2022

This paper mainly studies the data-based security fault tolerant iterative learning control (SFTILC) problem of nonlinear networked control systems (NCSs) under sensor failures and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Firstly, the radial basis function n...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor and Actuator Attacks of Cyber-Physical Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,214 Views
13 Pages

23 June 2022

As a core component of the X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (XAFS) system, the multi-channel double-crystal monochromator (DCM) can improve the time resolution of the system significantly. In contrast to the conventional single-channel DC...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Actuating, Sensing, Control, and Instrumentation for Ultra Precision Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,196 Views
27 Pages

An SSHC Interface Circuit for Energy Harvesting of Piezoelectric Flags

  • Yuansheng Chen,
  • Lichen Tong,
  • Jianzhou Du,
  • Hongli Ji and
  • Pengcheng Zhao

22 June 2022

Piezoelectric flags have functions of both classic flags and energy harvesting, and are becoming a new research focus. Interface circuits that convert wind energy to electrical energy are the key component of piezoelectric flags. A new structure for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Shape Memory Alloys and Piezoelectric Materials and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
4,938 Views
19 Pages

Adaptive Synergetic Motion Control for Wearable Knee-Assistive System: A Rehabilitation of Disabled Patients

  • Shaymaa M. Mahdi,
  • Noor Q. Yousif,
  • Ahmed A. Oglah,
  • Musaab E. Sadiq and ,
  • Amjad J. Humaidi and
  • Ahmad Taher Azar
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 June 2022

In this study, synergetic-based adaptive control design is developed for trajectory tracking control of joint position in knee-rehabilitation system. This system is often utilized for rehabilitation of patients with lower-limb disabilities. However,...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuators for Medical Instruments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,965 Views
14 Pages

Foot Drop Stimulation via Piezoelectric Energy Harvester

  • Parham Soozandeh,
  • Ganga Poudel,
  • Morteza Sarkari and
  • Kamran Behdinan

22 June 2022

The design and implementation of a piezoelectric energy-harvesting system, aimed at stimulating the Tibialis anterior muscle to aid patients struggling with a foot drop disability, are investigated. A physical prototype designed to be installed insid...

(This article belongs to the Section Actuator Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,367 Views
17 Pages

A Basic Study on Hybrid Systems for Small Race Car to Improve Dynamic Performance Using Lap Time Simulation

  • Ikkei Kobayashi,
  • Kazuki Ogawa,
  • Daigo Uchino,
  • Keigo Ikeda and ,
  • Taro Kato,
  • Ayato Endo,
  • Mohamad Heerwan Bin Peeie,
  • Takayoshi Narita and
  • Hideaki Kato
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

22 June 2022

A hybrid vehicle is a vehicle with two or more power sources. We propose a hybrid system in which the engine torque converted by the transmission is combined with an electric motor torque. The proposed system reduces transmission because engine torqu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vehicle Modeling and Control)
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