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Actuators, Volume 13, Issue 8

August 2024 - 48 articles

Cover Story: This paper presents a three-finger hybrid gripper with rigid and soft components that is designed for efficient automated harvesting of button mushrooms, even in confined spaces like narrow shelves. Our study covers the gripper's design, fabrication, force analysis, and the performance of picking both individual and clustered mushrooms. Results show that textured soft pads on the gripper's fingertips reduce picking time and improve success rates by up to 20% by minimizing force and mushroom damage. The gripper performed better in terms of picking time and success rate compared to other end-effectors, highlighting its potential for commercial use. View this paper
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Articles (48)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,430 Views
12 Pages

22 August 2024

This paper presents a non-linear model predictive control approach for offset-free tracking and the rejection of piece-wise constant disturbances. The approach involves augmenting the system’s state vector with the integral of the tracking erro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,397 Views
22 Pages

21 August 2024

Interior permanent magnet synchronous machines (IPMSMs) are widely used as traction motors in the electric drive-train because of their high torque-per-ampere characteristics and potential for wide field weakening operation to expand the constant pow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,507 Views
14 Pages

Load Torque Component Extraction and Analysis of Ultra-High-Speed Electric Air Compressors for Fuel Cell Vehicles

  • Jiaming Zhou,
  • Xing Shu,
  • Jinming Zhang,
  • Fengyan Yi,
  • Donghai Hu,
  • Caizhi Zhang and
  • Yanzhao Li

21 August 2024

An ultra-high-speed electric air compressor (UHSEAC) generates a load torque component during operation, leading to unstable output. As air passes through the UHSEAC, the air density changes significantly, resulting in increased uneven distribution....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,985 Views
18 Pages

Designing a Robotic Gripper Based on the Actuating Capacity of NiTi-Based Shape Memory Wires

  • Adrian Petru Teodoriu,
  • Bogdan Pricop,
  • Nicoleta-Monica Lohan,
  • Mihai Popa,
  • Radu Ioachim Comăneci,
  • Ioan Doroftei and
  • Leandru-Gheorghe Bujoreanu

21 August 2024

In the present study, the capacity of two commercial NiTi and NiTiCu shape memory alloy (SMA) wires to develop work-generating (WG) and constrained-recovery (CR) shape memory effects (SMEs), as well as the capacity of a commercial NiTiFe super-elasti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,643 Views
21 Pages

21 August 2024

This paper aims to design a deformable mechanism to drive amphibious rotor blade deform from an aerial shape to an aquatic one. The Bennett four-bar and spherical four-bar mechanisms are used as the basic units (B unit and S unit) to form the Bennett...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,322 Views
21 Pages

Synergistic Pushing and Grasping for Enhanced Robotic Manipulation Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

  • Birhanemeskel Alamir Shiferaw,
  • Tayachew F. Agidew,
  • Ali Saeed Alzahrani and
  • Ramasamy Srinivasagan

20 August 2024

In robotic manipulation, achieving efficient and reliable grasping in cluttered environments remains a significant challenge. This study presents a novel approach that integrates pushing and grasping actions using deep reinforcement learning. The pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,278 Views
22 Pages

Research on Camera Rotation Strategies for Active Visual Perception in the Self-Driving Vehicles

  • Xiangcun Kong,
  • Shuyue Shi,
  • Bingchen Yan,
  • Shuzhe Si,
  • Juan Ni,
  • Dong Guo,
  • Pengwei Wang,
  • Lei Wang and
  • Yi Xu

20 August 2024

Aiming at the problem of blind field of view caused by the change in the vehicle’s yaw angle when the self-driving vehicle is turning or changing lanes, this paper proposes a camera rotation strategy based on monocular active environment sensin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,989 Views
19 Pages

20 August 2024

This paper presents a design method of a suspension controller with an adaptive feedforward algorithm for ride comfort enhancement and motion sickness mitigation. Recently, it was shown that motion sickness is caused by combined heave and pitch motio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,120 Views
16 Pages

A Data-Driven Comprehensive Evaluation Method for Electromagnetic Suspension Maglev Control System

  • Xingyu Zhou,
  • Shi Liang,
  • Xiaolong Li,
  • Zhiqiang Long and
  • Zhiqiang Wang

20 August 2024

As new advanced vehicles, the safety and stability of electromagnetic suspension maglev trains have always been a subject of concern. This study introduces the improved R index and τ-distance index into the performance evaluation of the suspensio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,468 Views
17 Pages

16 August 2024

The electromagnet module, as a fundamental component providing levitation force for maglev trains, plays a crucial role in ensuring the stability of train operation. However, vibrations can easily occur due to the mechanical coupling between the two...

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Actuators - ISSN 2076-0825