Advances in Actuators
This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Actuator is an essential component of electromechanical systems which converts electrical energy into mechanical work. The growing demand for actuators at multi-scales (macro, meso, micro and nano) and in emerging areas such as biomedical applications and micro-autonomous systems requires more robust, efficient and scalable actuator technologies. This Special Issue of Sensors entitled, “Advances in Actuators,” aims to report recent emerging actuator technologies in response to these demands such as muscle-inspired actuators, design and manufacturing of thin film piezoelectric and shape memory actuators and electro-active polymer actuators. We invite researchers and scientists to submit their latest results and developments for the following topics, but not limited to:
- Artificial muscle actuators
- In-plane linear micro actuators
- Large strain micro actuators
- Design and fabrication of nano actuators
- Multi-scale assembly of micro/nano/meso actuators
- Piezoelectric actuators
- Conducting polymer and dielectric elastomer actuators
- Shape memory actuators
- Low-power actuators
- Novel control technology for emerging actuators (see keywords below)
Prof. Dr. Sang-Gook Kim
Guest Editor
Keywords
- artificial muscle actuators
- in-plane linear micro actuators
- large strain micro actuators
- design and fabrication of nano actuators
- multi-scale assembly of micro/nano/meso actuators
- piezoelectric actuators
- conducting polymer and dielectric elastomer actuators
- shape memory actuators
- low-power actuators
- novel control technology for emerging actuators
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Published Papers
Sensors - ISSN 1424-8220