A miniature short stroke linear actuator - Design and analysis

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 497-504

  Lu, Haiwei ^a   Zhu, Jianguo ^a   Lin, Zhiwei ^a   Guo, Youguang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Actuators; Linear motors; Permanent magnet motors; Robotics; Tubular linear motors

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PERMANENT MAGNETS; PRODUCT DESIGN; ROBOTICS;

ROTARY-TO-LINEAR MECHANISM; SHORT STROKE LINEAR ACTUATORS;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 41549157876     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2008.915459     Document Type: Article

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