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Actuators, Volume 12, Issue 5

May 2023 - 36 articles

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Cover Story: The picture illustrates the FEM of a winglet equipped with two independent morphing flaps and relevant kinematics. The scope of the system is to enhance aircraft performance at specific flight regimes and enable dedicated load distribution laws to reduce the loading of the wing. The lower flap is controlled by an actuator mounted in line, while the upper flap is controlled by another actuator through a dedicated kinematic chain. Both the flaps implement a finger-like mechanism to efficiently alter the chamber. Non-linear modelling and simulation approaches proved the compliance of the design with the requirements and with the targets of the project and paved the way to the next phases of the research, that is to say, the demonstration on ground and the final flight tests. View this paper

Articles (36)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,107 Views
20 Pages

22 May 2023

This paper investigated the co-design problem of less conservative integrated security control and communication for a nonlinear cyber-physical system (CPS) with an actuator fault and false data injection (FDI) attacks. Firstly, considering the effic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,816 Views
14 Pages

22 May 2023

Energy harvesting technologies and material science has made it possible to tap into the abundant amount of surrounding vibrational energy to efficiently convert it into useable energy providing power to portable electronics and IoT devices. Recent i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,248 Views
27 Pages

22 May 2023

In response to the problems of the inaccurate pneumatic control valve model, the slow valve position control, and the low precision in the industrial control process, some improvement methods are proposed. Firstly, the fractional-order concept is int...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,111 Views
22 Pages

Loss Determination Techniques for Piezoelectrics: A Review

  • Yoonsang Park,
  • Minkyu Choi and
  • Kenji Uchino

21 May 2023

Nowadays, heat dissipation in electronic devices is one of the serious issues to be resolved in energy and environmental terms. Piezoelectric materials are being utilized in many electronic devices, yet the roadblock toward further miniaturization of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,946 Views
19 Pages

21 May 2023

Unfavorable temperatures and humidity will cause the failure of spring actuators. In order to ensure the safe operation of the actuator, it is necessary to optimize the design of the built-in heater system of the actuator itself. In this study, an ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,179 Views
30 Pages

20 May 2023

High-speed actuators are greatly required in this decade due to the fast development of future technologies, such as Internet-of-Things (IoT) and robots. The ferromagnetic shape memory alloys (FSMAs), whose shape change could be driven by applying an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,108 Views
29 Pages

Microactuation of Magnetic Nanofluid Enabled by a Pulsatory Rotating Magnetic Field

  • Lucian Pîslaru-Dănescu,
  • George-Claudiu Zărnescu,
  • Eros-Alexandru Pătroi,
  • Rareș-Andrei Chihaia and
  • Gabriela Telipan

19 May 2023

A microactuation process was developed with the help of four coils that generate a pulsatory rotating magnetic field. A small actuator stator, which contains a 46 mm acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) opened box and four coils with E-type ferrite...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,437 Views
25 Pages

19 May 2023

Sliding mode control has been widely used to control permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM). However, the parameters of the sliding mode controller are difficult to be tuned, which makes the control performance of PMSM hard to be improved. A nonl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,813 Views
25 Pages

18 May 2023

Electroactive polymer (EAP) actuators are an example of a novel soft material device that can be used for several applications including artificial muscles and lenses. The field of EAPs can be broken down into a few fields; however, the field that wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,964 Views
20 Pages

Distributed Cooperative Cruise Control for High-Speed Trains with Energy-Saving Optimization

  • Feng Zhou,
  • Kewu Tao,
  • Bin Chen,
  • Shuo Li,
  • Zhengfa Zhu and
  • Yingze Yang

17 May 2023

With the aim of improving the energy utilization during the cooperative operation of multiple trains, this paper proposes an optimal distributed cooperative cruise control strategy to ensure safe and efficient tracking. A performance index function w...

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