Design and analysis of a permanent magnet spherical actuator

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 239-248

  Yan, Liang ^a   Chen, I Ming ^a   Lim, Chee Kian ^a   Yang, Gulin ^b   Lin, Wei ^b   Lee, Kok Meng ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Actuator design; Spherical actuator; Torque model

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION; PERMANENT MAGNETS; POLES AND ZEROS; TORQUE;

AIR-CORE COILS; SINGULARITY-FREE WORKSPACE; SPHERICAL ACTUATOR;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 43249103192     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2008.918573     Document Type: Article

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