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Actuators, Volume 11, Issue 1

January 2022 - 27 articles

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Cover Story: It is important to comprehensively evaluate which type of motor is most suitable when designing mechanical systems. This paper presents the results of a survey of the performance of electric and hydraulic servo motors which are commonly used in many mechanical systems and aims to provide quantitative data that can be used as a reference for selecting appropriate motors. We collected data on the characteristics of electric and hydraulic motors and compared and evaluated the characteristics of these servo motors using indexes such as torque, rotating speed, output power, power density, and power rate. View this paper

Articles (27)

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,826 Views
17 Pages

17 January 2022

Most of the multidegree-of-freedom ultrasonic motors (MDOF-USMs) use a spherical rotor, and the design of the stator is restricted due to the use of the resonance mode. (1) Therefore, there is almost impossible to freely design the overall shape, res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,893 Views
14 Pages

17 January 2022

The hoisting form in which the payload is hung on the hook by two rigging ropes is widely used in the industry, but it also results in the complex double pendulum dynamic of the bridge crane, making the anti-swing trajectory planning full of challeng...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,131 Views
13 Pages

A Portable Non-Contact Tremor Vibration Measurement and Classification Apparatus

  • Mohd Zarhamdy Md Zain,
  • Ali Zolfagharian,
  • Moslem Mohammadi,
  • Mahdi Bodaghi,
  • Abd Rahim Abu Bakar and
  • Abbas Z. Kouzani

17 January 2022

Tremors are the most common type of movement disorder and affect the lives of those experiencing them. The efficacy of tremor therapies varies according to the aetiology of the tremor and its correct diagnosis. This study develops a portable measurem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,038 Views
18 Pages

14 January 2022

The goal of haptic feedback in robotic teleoperation is to enable users to accurately feel the interaction force measured at the slave side and precisely understand what is happening in the slave environment. The accuracy of the feedback force descri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,239 Views
15 Pages

13 January 2022

As a critical component of the sugarcane harvester, the primary function of the crop dividers is to lift the lodged sugarcane (LS) and reduce the loss rate of the sugarcane harvest. In this study, a rigid-flexible coupling simulation method is propos...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,609 Views
14 Pages

11 January 2022

To improve the path tracking accuracy of autonomous tractors in operation, an improved Stanley controller (IMP-ST) is proposed in this paper. The controller was applied to a two-wheel tractor dynamics model. The parameters of the IMP-ST were optimize...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,351 Views
19 Pages

Novel Strategy of Adaptive Predictive Control Based on a MIMO-ARX Model

  • Alejandro Piñón,
  • Antonio Favela-Contreras,
  • Francisco Beltran-Carbajal,
  • Camilo Lozoya and
  • Graciano Dieck-Assad

10 January 2022

Many industrial processes include MIMO (multiple-input, multiple-output) systems that are difficult to control by standard commercial controllers. This paper describes a MIMO case of a class of SISO-APC (single-input, single-output adaptive predictiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,463 Views
18 Pages

10 January 2022

The piezoelectric (PE) fan is widely adopted in the field of microelectronics cooling due to its advantages of high reliability and good heat dissipation characteristics. However, PE fans driven by conventional circuits suffer from plenty of energy l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,305 Views
17 Pages

Modeling and Experiments of an Annular Multi-Channel Magnetorheological Valve

  • Xiaolong Yang,
  • Yingjie Chen,
  • Yuting Liu and
  • Ruibo Zhang

10 January 2022

With the increasing number of cars, the demand for vehicle maintenance lifts is also increasing. The hydraulic valve is one of its core components, but there are problems with it such as inaccurate positioning and failure. In order to improve the ser...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,520 Views
14 Pages

An Enhanced Sliding Mode Speed Control for Induction Motor Drives

  • Fahimeh Shiravani,
  • Patxi Alkorta,
  • Jose Antonio Cortajarena and
  • Oscar Barambones

10 January 2022

In this paper, an enhanced Integral Sliding Mode Control (ISMC) for mechanical speed of an Induction Motor (IM) is presented and experimentally validated. The design of the proposed controller has been done in the d-q synchronous reference frame and...

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