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122	Status and Perspectives of Multiferroic Magnetoelectric Composite Materials and Applications by Haribabu Palneedi, Venkateswarlu Annapureddy, Shashank Priya and Jungho Ryu
49	Recent Progress on PZT Based Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Technologies by Min-Gyu Kang, Woo-Suk Jung, Chong-Yun Kang and Seok-Jin Yoon
33	Recent Progress on BaTiO₃-Based Piezoelectric Ceramics for Actuator Applications by Jinghui Gao, Dezhen Xue, Wenfeng Liu, Chao Zhou and Xiaobing Ren
31	Soft Pneumatic Actuators for Rehabilitation by Guido Belforte, Gabriella Eula, Alexandre Ivanov and Silvia Sirolli
30	Self-Sensing Ionic Polymer Actuators: A Review by Karl Kruusamäe, Andres Punning, Alvo Aabloo and Kinji Asaka
26	Piezoelectric Motors, an Overview by Karl Spanner and Burhanettin Koc
24	Bioinspired Soft Actuation System Using Shape Memory Alloys by Matteo Cianchetti, Alessia Licofonte, Maurizio Follador, Francesco Rogai and Cecilia Laschi
24	Flexible Medical Devices: Review of Controllable Stiffness Solutions by Loïc Blanc, Alain Delchambre and Pierre Lambert
24	Concept of a Series-Parallel Elastic Actuator for a Powered Transtibial Prosthesis by Glenn Mathijssen, Pierre Cherelle, Dirk Lefeber and Bram Vanderborght
23	Robust Force Control of Series Elastic Actuators by Andrea Calanca, Luca Capisani and Paolo Fiorini

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3	Shape Memory Activated Self-Deployable Solar Sails: Small-Scale Prototypes Manufacturing and Planarity Analysis by 3D Laser Scanner by Alberto Boschetto, Luana Bottini, Girolamo Costanza and Maria Elisa Tata
1	A Vacuum Powered Soft Textile-Based Clutch by Ali Sadeghi, Alessio Mondini and Barbara Mazzolai
1	A Multistate Friction Model for the Compensation of the Asymmetric Hysteresis in the Mechanical Response of Pneumatic Artificial Muscles by Alessia Capace, Carlo Cosentino, Francesco Amato and Alessio Merola
1	Electromechanical Actuation for Morphing Winglets by Ignazio Dimino, Federico Gallorini, Massimiliano Palmieri and Giulio Pispola
1	Modeling and System Integration for a Thin Pneumatic Rubber 3-DOF Actuator by Shuhei Kawamura, Mizuki Sudani, Mingcong Deng, Yuichi Noge and Shuichi Wakimoto
1	Review of Modeling and Control of Magnetostrictive Actuators by Valerio Apicella, Carmine Stefano Clemente, Daniele Davino, Damiano Leone and Ciro Visone
1	Stochastic Effects on the Dynamics of the Resonant Structure of a Lorentz Force MEMS Magnetometer by Mehrdad Bagherinia and Stefano Mariani

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6	Mechanical Response of Four-Bar Linkage Microgrippers with Bidirectional Electrostatic Actuation by Fabio Botta, Matteo Verotti, Alvise Bagolini, Pierluigi Bellutti and Nicola Pio Belfiore
5	An Approach to the Extreme Miniaturization of Rotary Comb Drives by Andrea Veroli, Alessio Buzzin, Fabrizio Frezza, Giampiero De Cesare, Muhammad Hamidullah, Ennio Giovine, Matteo Verotti and Nicola Pio Belfiore
4	Modeling and Validation of the Radial Force Capability of Bearingless Hysteresis Drives by Salvatore Circosta, Renato Galluzzi, Angelo Bonfitto, Luis M. Castellanos, Nicola Amati and Andrea Tonoli
3	Recursive Least Squares Filtering Algorithms for On-Line Viscoelastic Characterization of Biosamples by Paolo Di Giamberardino, Maria Laura Aceto, Oliviero Giannini and Matteo Verotti
3	Shape Memory Activated Self-Deployable Solar Sails: Small-Scale Prototypes Manufacturing and Planarity Analysis by 3D Laser Scanner by Alberto Boschetto, Luana Bottini, Girolamo Costanza and Maria Elisa Tata
3	Micromanipulation: A Challenge for Actuation by Nicola Pio Belfiore
2	Analysis of a Shaftless Semi-Hard Magnetic Material Flywheel on Radial Hysteresis Self-Bearing Drives by Salvatore Circosta, Angelo Bonfitto, Christopher Lusty, Patrick Keogh, Nicola Amati and Andrea Tonoli
2	Active Control of Regenerative Brake for Electric Vehicles by Chun-Liang Lin, Hao-Che Hung and Jia-Cheng Li
1	Optimal Magnetic Spring for Compliant Actuation—Validated Torque Density Benchmark by Branimir Mrak, Bert Lenaerts, Walter Driesen and Wim Desmet
1	Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting with an Ultrasonic Vibration Source by Tao Li and Pooi See Lee

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16	Innovative Silicon Microgrippers for Biomedical Applications: Design, Mechanical Simulation and Evaluation of Protein Fouling by Cristina Potrich, Lorenzo Lunelli, Alvise Bagolini, Pierluigi Bellutti, Cecilia Pederzolli, Matteo Verotti and Nicola Pio Belfiore
11	A Review on Parametric Dynamic Models of Magnetorheological Dampers and Their Characterization Methods by Andrea Rossi, Francesco Orsini, Andrea Scorza, Fabio Botta, Nicola Pio Belfiore and Salvatore Andrea Sciuto
10	Efficient Structure-Based Models for the McKibben Contraction Pneumatic Muscle Actuator: The Full Description of the Behaviour of the Contraction PMA by Alaa Al-Ibadi, Samia Nefti-Meziani and Steve Davis
9	Modeling the Static Force of a Festo Pneumatic Muscle Actuator: A New Approach and a Comparison to Existing Models by Mirco Martens and Ivo Boblan
7	Offset-Free Model Predictive Control for Active Magnetic Bearing Systems by Angelo Bonfitto, Luis Miguel Castellanos Molina, Andrea Tonoli and Nicola Amati
6	Mechanical Response of Four-Bar Linkage Microgrippers with Bidirectional Electrostatic Actuation by Fabio Botta, Matteo Verotti, Alvise Bagolini, Pierluigi Bellutti and Nicola Pio Belfiore
5	Performance Optimization of a Conical Dielectric Elastomer Actuator by Chongjing Cao and Andrew T. Conn
5	Survey on Recent Designs of Compliant Micro-/Nano-Positioning Stages by Zeyi Wu and Qingsong Xu
5	The Effects of Structure Thickness, Air Gap Thickness and Silicon Type on the Performance of a Horizontal Electrothermal MEMS Microgripper by Marija Cauchi, Ivan Grech, Bertram Mallia, Pierluigi Mollicone and Nicholas Sammut
5	Sleeved Bending Actuators for Soft Grippers: A Durable Solution for High Force-to-Weight Applications by Geneviève Miron, Benjamin Bédard and Jean-Sébastien Plante

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33	Recent Progress on BaTiO₃-Based Piezoelectric Ceramics for Actuator Applications by Jinghui Gao, Dezhen Xue, Wenfeng Liu, Chao Zhou and Xiaobing Ren
24	Flexible Medical Devices: Review of Controllable Stiffness Solutions by Loïc Blanc, Alain Delchambre and Pierre Lambert
23	Piezoelectric Inertia Motors—A Critical Review of History, Concepts, Design, Applications, and Perspectives by Matthias Hunstig
16	Innovative Silicon Microgrippers for Biomedical Applications: Design, Mechanical Simulation and Evaluation of Protein Fouling by Cristina Potrich, Lorenzo Lunelli, Alvise Bagolini, Pierluigi Bellutti, Cecilia Pederzolli, Matteo Verotti and Nicola Pio Belfiore
13	MR Damper Controlled Vibration Absorber for Enhanced Mitigation of Harmonic Vibrations by Felix Weber, Hans Distl, Sebastian Fischer and Christian Braun
13	Fractional Order PID Control of Rotor Suspension by Active Magnetic Bearings by Parinya Anantachaisilp and Zongli Lin
11	A Review on Parametric Dynamic Models of Magnetorheological Dampers and Their Characterization Methods by Andrea Rossi, Francesco Orsini, Andrea Scorza, Fabio Botta, Nicola Pio Belfiore and Salvatore Andrea Sciuto
10	Homopolar Permanent-Magnet-Biased Actuators and Their Application in Rotational Active Magnetic Bearing Systems by Alexei Filatov, Larry Hawkins and Patrick McMullen
10	Efficient Structure-Based Models for the McKibben Contraction Pneumatic Muscle Actuator: The Full Description of the Behaviour of the Contraction PMA by Alaa Al-Ibadi, Samia Nefti-Meziani and Steve Davis
9	Modeling the Static Force of a Festo Pneumatic Muscle Actuator: A New Approach and a Comparison to Existing Models by Mirco Martens and Ivo Boblan

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8315	Novel Additive Manufacturing Pneumatic Actuators and Mechanisms for Food Handling Grippers by Carlos Blanes, Martín Mellado and Pablo Beltran
8081	Status and Perspectives of Multiferroic Magnetoelectric Composite Materials and Applications by Haribabu Palneedi, Venkateswarlu Annapureddy, Shashank Priya and Jungho Ryu
7274	The UC Softhand: Light Weight Adaptive Bionic Hand with a Compact Twisted String Actuation System by Mahmoud Tavakoli, Rafael Batista and Lucio Sgrigna
6582	Self-Sensing Ionic Polymer Actuators: A Review by Karl Kruusamäe, Andres Punning, Alvo Aabloo and Kinji Asaka
6486	Bioinspired Soft Actuation System Using Shape Memory Alloys by Matteo Cianchetti, Alessia Licofonte, Maurizio Follador, Francesco Rogai and Cecilia Laschi
6143	A Two-Degree of Freedom Variable Stiffness Actuator Based on the MACCEPA Concept by Maarten Weckx, Glenn Mathijssen, Idris Si Mhand Benali, Raphaël Furnemont, Ronald Van Ham, Dirk Lefeber and Bram Vanderborght
6083	Control of a Heavy-Lift Robotic Manipulator with Pneumatic Artificial Muscles by Ryan M. Robinson, Curt S. Kothera and Norman M. Wereley
5904	Adaptive Piezoelectric Absorber for Active Vibration Control by Sven Herold and Dirk Mayer
5884	Generalization of Series Elastic Actuator Configurations and Dynamic Behavior Comparison by Chan Lee, Suhui Kwak, Jihoo Kwak and Sehoon Oh

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1842	Insect Muscular Tissue-Powered Swimming Robot by Yaxiaer Yalikun, Kaoru Uesugi, Minamida Hiroki, Yigang Shen, Yo Tanaka, Yoshitake Akiyama and Keisuke Morishima
1636	Mechanical Simplification of Variable-Stiffness Actuators Using Dielectric Elastomer Transducers by David P. Allen, Edgar Bolívar, Sophie Farmer, Walter Voit and Robert D. Gregg
1617	An Active Vehicle Suspension Control Approach with Electromagnetic and Hydraulic Actuators by Francisco Beltran-Carbajal, Antonio Valderrabano-Gonzalez, Antonio Favela-Contreras, Jose Luis Hernandez-Avila, Irvin Lopez-Garcia and Ruben Tapia-Olvera
1579	A Soft Master-Slave Robot Mimicking Octopus Arm Structure Using Thin Artificial Muscles and Wire Encoders by Shota Furukawa, Shuichi Wakimoto, Takefumi Kanda and Hiroki Hagihara
1537	Performance Enhancement of a Magnetic System in a Ultra Compact 5-DOF-Controlled Self-Bearing Motor for a Rotary Pediatric Ventricular-Assist Device to Diminish Energy Input by Masahiro Osa, Toru Masuzawa, Ryoga Orihara and Eisuke Tatsumi
1528	Space Vector Modulation Strategies for Self-Sensing Three-Phase Radial Active Magnetic Bearings by Dominik Wimmer, Markus Hutterer, Matthias Hofer and Manfred Schrödl
1493	Review of Modeling and Control of Magnetostrictive Actuators by Valerio Apicella, Carmine Stefano Clemente, Daniele Davino, Damiano Leone and Ciro Visone
1486	Modeling and System Integration for a Thin Pneumatic Rubber 3-DOF Actuator by Shuhei Kawamura, Mizuki Sudani, Mingcong Deng, Yuichi Noge and Shuichi Wakimoto
1467	Shape Memory Activated Self-Deployable Solar Sails: Small-Scale Prototypes Manufacturing and Planarity Analysis by 3D Laser Scanner by Alberto Boschetto, Luana Bottini, Girolamo Costanza and Maria Elisa Tata
1429	Design and Analysis of a 1D Actively Stabilized System with Viscoelastic Damping Support by Josef Passenbrunner, Gerald Jungmayr and Wolfgang Amrhein

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3911	Preparing and Mounting Polymer Nanofibers onto Microscale Test Platforms by Ramesh Shrestha, Sheng Shen and Maarten P. de Boer
3068	Conductive Fabric Heaters for Heat-Activated Soft Actuators by Mark Cartolano, Boxi Xia, Aslan Miriyev and Hod Lipson
2974	Optimal Magnetic Spring for Compliant Actuation—Validated Torque Density Benchmark by Branimir Mrak, Bert Lenaerts, Walter Driesen and Wim Desmet
2717	Modified U-shaped Microactuator with Compliant Mechanism Applied to a Microgripper by Pedro Vargas-Chable, Margarita Tecpoyotl-Torres, Ramon Cabello-Ruiz, Jose Alfredo Rodriguez-Ramirez and Rafael Vargas-Bernal
2591	A Review on the Control of the Mechanical Properties of Ankle Foot Orthosis for Gait Assistance by Dimas Adiputra, Nurhazimah Nazmi, Irfan Bahiuddin, Ubaidillah Ubaidillah, Fitrian Imaduddin, Mohd Azizi Abdul Rahman, Saiful Amri Mazlan and Hairi Zamzuri
2542	Plasma Synthetic Jet Actuators for Active Flow Control by Haohua Zong, Matteo Chiatto, Marios Kotsonis and Luigi De Luca
2459	On Modeling the Bending Stiffness of Thin Semi-Circular Flexure Hinges for Precision Applications by Mario André Torres Melgarejo, Maximilian Darnieder, Sebastian Linß, Lena Zentner, Thomas Fröhlich and René Theska
2442	Design of Soft Origami Mechanisms with Targeted Symmetries by Andrew Gillman, Gregory Wilson, Kazuko Fuchi, Darren Hartl, Alexander Pankonien and Philip Buskohl
2438	Active Control of Regenerative Brake for Electric Vehicles by Chun-Liang Lin, Hao-Che Hung and Jia-Cheng Li
2370	Mechanical Response of Four-Bar Linkage Microgrippers with Bidirectional Electrostatic Actuation by Fabio Botta, Matteo Verotti, Alvise Bagolini, Pierluigi Bellutti and Nicola Pio Belfiore

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4901	Efficient Structure-Based Models for the McKibben Contraction Pneumatic Muscle Actuator: The Full Description of the Behaviour of the Contraction PMA by Alaa Al-Ibadi, Samia Nefti-Meziani and Steve Davis
4877	Structural-Parametric Model of Electromagnetoelastic Actuator for Nanomechanics by S. M. Afonin
4121	Levitating Micro-Actuators: A Review by Kirill V. Poletkin, Asa Asadollahbaik, Ronald Kampmann and Jan G. Korvink
3911	Preparing and Mounting Polymer Nanofibers onto Microscale Test Platforms by Ramesh Shrestha, Sheng Shen and Maarten P. de Boer
3867	A New and Versatile Adjustable Rigidity Actuator with Add-on Locking Mechanism (ARES-XL) by Manuel Cestari, Daniel Sanz-Merodio and Elena Garcia
3784	Modeling the Static Force of a Festo Pneumatic Muscle Actuator: A New Approach and a Comparison to Existing Models by Mirco Martens and Ivo Boblan
3664	Modeling a Pull-In Instability in Micro-Machined Hybrid Contactless Suspension by Kirill V. Poletkin and Jan G. Korvink
3640	An Overview of Novel Actuators for Soft Robotics by Pinar Boyraz, Gundula Runge and Annika Raatz
3530	Dielectric Elastomer Actuators with Carbon Nanotube Electrodes Painted with a Soft Brush by Hiroki Shigemune, Shigeki Sugano, Jun Nishitani, Masayuki Yamauchi, Naoki Hosoya, Shuji Hashimoto and Shingo Maeda
3506	Electric-Pneumatic Actuator: A New Muscle for Locomotion by Maziar Ahmad Sharbafi, Hirofumi Shin, Guoping Zhao, Koh Hosoda and Andre Seyfarth

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5884	Generalization of Series Elastic Actuator Configurations and Dynamic Behavior Comparison by Chan Lee, Suhui Kwak, Jihoo Kwak and Sehoon Oh
5807	Re-Engineering a High Performance Electrical Series Elastic Actuator for Low-Cost Industrial Applications by Kenan Isik, Shunde He, Joseph Ho and Luis Sentis
5595	Homopolar Permanent-Magnet-Biased Actuators and Their Application in Rotational Active Magnetic Bearing Systems by Alexei Filatov, Larry Hawkins and Patrick McMullen
5415	Fractional Order PID Control of Rotor Suspension by Active Magnetic Bearings by Parinya Anantachaisilp and Zongli Lin
5123	Recent Progress on BaTiO₃-Based Piezoelectric Ceramics for Actuator Applications by Jinghui Gao, Dezhen Xue, Wenfeng Liu, Chao Zhou and Xiaobing Ren
4991	Flexible Medical Devices: Review of Controllable Stiffness Solutions by Loïc Blanc, Alain Delchambre and Pierre Lambert
4920	MR Damper Controlled Vibration Absorber for Enhanced Mitigation of Harmonic Vibrations by Felix Weber, Hans Distl, Sebastian Fischer and Christian Braun
4901	Efficient Structure-Based Models for the McKibben Contraction Pneumatic Muscle Actuator: The Full Description of the Behaviour of the Contraction PMA by Alaa Al-Ibadi, Samia Nefti-Meziani and Steve Davis
4877	Structural-Parametric Model of Electromagnetoelastic Actuator for Nanomechanics by S. M. Afonin
4859	Piezoelectric Inertia Motors—A Critical Review of History, Concepts, Design, Applications, and Perspectives by Matthias Hunstig

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