Conventional and Micromachined Electromagnetic Levitation Actuators
A special issue of Actuators (ISSN 2076-0825). This special issue belongs to the section "Miniaturized and Micro Actuators".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 7111
Special Issue Editor
Interests: levitating micro-actuators; levitating micro-systems; inductive levitation; micro-inertial sensors; energy transfer; heat transfer; modeling; stability; pull-in dynamics
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Dear Colleagues,
Electromagnetic levitation phenomena have already become a driving force towards creating a new generation of actuators with inherent benefits, such as controllable mechanical friction and considerably extended motional range, thereby yielding actuators with wider operational capabilities, and at the same time, significantly reducing the dissipated energy. The complete elimination of mechanical attachments and, consequently, mechanical wear and control of mechanical friction by means of vacuum in such actuators open up a number of advantages, offering their further miniaturization, and significant improvements in performance, as well as the promise of actuators with longer operational lifetimes. These advantages and ongoing miniaturization promise possibilities for creating actuator systems with new functionalities, for instance, comprising of multistable mechanisms, coherent cooperative actuation and demonstratimg a wide range of different operation modes such as linear and angular positioning, bistable linear and angular actuations and the adjustment of stiffness components. This Special Issue aims to consolidate original papers and state-of-the-art reviews with a focus on levitating actuators based on electric, magnetic, inductive, diamagnetic, superconducting, optical and hybrid levitation.
The topics of interests include, but are not limited to:
- bulk- and microfabrication, and new magnetic, optical materials and metamaterials;
- new conceptual designs of levitating actuators for application in bearings, motors, energy-harvesters, sensors, etc., as well as microsystem actuators;
- nonlinear phenomena in levitating actuators including coupling effects, pull-in dynamics and instability, dissipation-induced instability, chaotic behavior, etc.;
- analytical and numerical methods related to the topic for the modeling and analysis of actuator stability and dynamics (analytical methods based on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, FEM, topology optimization, model order reduction, etc.).
Dr. Kirill V. Poletkin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- actuators
- micro-actuators
- electromagnetic levitation
- micro-systems
- coils
- magnets
- stable levitation
- modeling
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