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Actuators, Volume 12, Issue 1

January 2023 - 45 articles

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Cover Story: The relative position between the laser beam and the nozzle is controlled by laser-focus-controlled magnetic actuators to achieve non-coaxial laser cutting and improve laser cutting efficiency. In this paper, a 3-DOF (degrees of freedom) magnetic actuator is designed to solve the inconsistency of the laser beam focus and the nozzle focus in off-axis laser cutting. A mixed sensitivity robust controller is designed, and its simulation analysis and experimental research are carried out. The experimental results show that the step response of the actuator in the Y, X, and θ directions can quickly reach the steady-state value. Additionally, the steady-state error in the X, Y, and θ is 1.6%, 0.39%, and 0.45%, respectively. Their errors are all less than 0.025 mm, so they meet the position performance requirements. View this paper

Articles (45)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,318 Views
20 Pages

Reduction in Airfoil Trailing-Edge Noise Using a Pulsed Laser as an Actuator

  • Keita Ogura,
  • Yoimi Kojima,
  • Masato Imai,
  • Kohei Konishi,
  • Kazuyuki Nakakita and
  • Masaharu Kameda

16 January 2023

Trailing-edge noise (TE noise) is an aeroacoustic sound radiated from an isolated airfoil in the specific ranges of low-speed flow. We used a pulsed laser as an actuator to reduce the TE noise without modifying the airfoil’s surface. The wind t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,595 Views
17 Pages

16 January 2023

In order to decrease the transmission of vibration and achieve the attenuation of the vibration magnitude of an isolated object, a new type of permanent and electromagnet composite vibration isolation system is designed based on negative stiffness th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,731 Views
18 Pages

Flow Control around NACA0015 Airfoil Using a Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Actuator over a Wide Range of the Reynolds Number

  • Satoshi Sekimoto,
  • Kozo Fujii,
  • Masayuki Anyoji,
  • Yuma Miyakawa,
  • Shinichiro Ito,
  • Satoshi Shimomura,
  • Hiroyuki Nishida,
  • Taku Nonomura and
  • Takashi Matsuno

16 January 2023

In this study, an experimental investigation of separation control using a dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuator was performed on an NACA0015 airfoil over a wide range of Reynolds numbers, angles of attack, and nondimensional burst frequencies...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,150 Views
27 Pages

12 January 2023

This paper presents an integrated controller for an autonomous articulated electric vehicle (AAEV) for path tracking and rollover prevention. The AAEV is vulnerable to rollover due to the characteristics of the articulated frame steering (AFS) mechan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,677 Views
20 Pages

12 January 2023

In this study, a type of direct-drive gearshift system integrated into a motor-transmission coupled drive system is introduced. It used two electromagnetic linear actuators (ELAs) to perform gearshift events. The adoption of ELAs simplifies the archi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,381 Views
15 Pages

A Gripper-like Exoskeleton Design for Robot Grasping Demonstration

  • Hengtai Dai,
  • Zhenyu Lu,
  • Mengyuan He and
  • Chenguang Yang

12 January 2023

Learning from demonstration (LfD) is a practical method for transferring skill knowledge from a human demonstrator to a robot. Several studies have shown the effectiveness of LfD in robotic grasping tasks to improve the success rate of grasping and t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,668 Views
18 Pages

10 January 2023

This paper studies the target tracking control strategy of a snake robot and proposes an adaptive sliding mode control method. The strategy ensures the robot follows the target path by controlling the joint angle through feedback, pushing the robot t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,303 Views
17 Pages

10 January 2023

The robotic grinding system for a thin-walled workpiece is a multi-dimensional coupling system composed of a robot, a grinding spindle and the thin-walled workpiece. In the grinding process, a dynamic coupling effect is generated, while the thin-wall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,463 Views
15 Pages

10 January 2023

This article presents the formulation and application of a reduced-order thermomechanical finite strain shape memory alloy (SMA)-based microactuator model for switching devices under thermal loading by Joule heating. The formulation is cast in the ge...

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