Design considerations for complementary inchworm actuators

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 265-271

  Salisbury, Shaun P ^b   Waechter, David F ^a,c   Mrad, Ridha Ben ^a,b   Prasad, S Eswar ^c   Blacow, Richard G ^c   Yan, Bin ^c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Sensor Technology Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

Actuator; Complementary; Inchworm; Piezoelectric

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; DELAY CIRCUITS; SWITCHING; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

CLAMP FORCE; INCHWORM ACTUATORS; UNCLAMPING;

PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 33947188519     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2006.875565     Document Type: Article

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