Experiments on Optimal Vibration Control of a Flexible Beam Containing Piezoelectric Sensors and Actuators by Gustavo L.C.M. Abreu, José F. Ribeiro, Valder Steffen Jr

“…In this paper, a digital regulator is designed and experimentally implemented for a flexible beam type structure containing piezoelectric sensors and actuators by using optimal control design techniques. …”
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Design and Test of Dual Actuator Nose Wheel Steering System for Large Civil Aircraft by Ming Zhang, Rongmin Jiang, Hong Nie

“…A following swivel selector valve is firstly designed to meet the demand for the hydraulic pressure commutating as soon as the dual actuator nose wheel steering mechanism passes through its dead center position. …”
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Ex vivo validation of magnetically actuated intravascular untethered robots in a clinical setting by Leendert-Jan W. Ligtenberg, Nicole C. A. Rabou, Constantinos Goulas, Wytze C. Duinmeijer, Frank R. Halfwerk, Jutta Arens, Roger Lomme, Veronika Magdanz, Anke Klingner, Emily A. M. Klein Rot, Colin H. E. Nijland, Dorothee Wasserberg, H. Remco Liefers, Pascal Jonkheijm, Arturo Susarrey-Arce, Michiel Warlé, Islam S. M. Khalil

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Bifurcation Type Change of AC Electrostatically Actuated MEMS Resonators due to DC Bias by Dumitru I. Caruntu, Kyle N. Taylor

“…This paper investigates the nonlinear response of microelectromechanical system (MEMS) cantilever resonator electrostatically actuated by applying a soft alternating current (AC) voltage and an even softer direct current (DC) voltage between the resonators and a parallel fixed ground plate. …”
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An Over-Actuated Hexacopter Tilt-Rotor UAV Prototype for Agriculture of Precision: Modeling and Control by Gabriel Oliveira Pimentel, Murillo Ferreira dos Santos, José Lima, Paolo Mercorelli, Fernanda Mara Fernandes

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Design of a 20,000 Pound Variable Stiffness Actuator for Structural Vibration Attenuation by John Leavitt, James E. Bobrow, Faryar Jabbari

“…This paper describes the design of a novel actuator capable of protecting a full scale structure from severe load conditions. …”
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Flaw Imaging Technique for Plate-Like Structures Using Scanning Laser Source Actuation by Changgil Lee, Seunghee Park

“…To achieve this goal, a scanning laser source actuation technique is utilized to generate a guided wave and scans a specific area to find damage location more precisely. …”
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A Precessing-Coin-like Rotary Actuator for Distal Endoscope Scanners: Proof-of-Concept Study by Nirvana Gharib, Mohammad Reza Yousefi Darestani, Kenichi Takahata

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Disturbance-Observer-Based Fixed-Time Backstepping Control for Quadrotors with Input Saturation and Actuator Failure by Tao Huang, Kang Liu, Yefeng Yang, Chih-Yung Wen, Xianlin Huang

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Analysis and Experimental Study on Dynamic Behavior of Stepper-Actuated Dual-Axis Data Transmission Antenna by Zhaomingyue Zheng, Wei Cheng, Ming Li, Guangyuan Wang, Limeng Tan

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Hysteresis Modeling of Magnetic Shape Memory Alloy Actuator Based on Krasnosel'skii-Pokrovskii Model by Miaolei Zhou, Shoubin Wang, Wei Gao

“…As a new type of intelligent material, magnetically shape memory alloy (MSMA) has a good performance in its applications in the actuator manufacturing. Compared with traditional actuators, MSMA actuator has the advantages as fast response and large deformation; however, the hysteresis nonlinearity of the MSMA actuator restricts its further improving of control precision. …”
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Operational Pitch Actuation Dynamics for Offshore Wind Turbines Ranging from 5 to 50 MW by Michael Jeong, Eric Loth, Chris Qin, Mandar Phadnis, Manuel Pusch, Lucy Pao

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Self-Diagnosis and Self-Reconfiguration of Piezoelectric Actuator and Sensor Network for Large Structural Health Monitoring by Dong Liang, Liaoni Wu, Zhifeng Fan, Yang Xu

“…Then, the effects of piezoelectric actuator and sensor bonding defects on Lamb wave propagations are investigated in a real-world monitoring experiment for the large aviation aluminum plate. …”
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Adaptive Fuzzy Cooperative Control for Nonlinear Multiagent Systems with Unknown Control Coefficient and Actuator Fault by Xin Deng, Xiaoping Liu, Yang Cui, Cungen Liu

“…The unknown control coefficient and the remaining control rate of actuator fault can be solved by introducing a Nussbaum function. …”
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Simulations and Experiments on the Vibrational Characteristics of Cylindrical Shell Resonator Actuated by Piezoelectric Electrodes with Different Thicknesses by Yiming Luo, Tianliang Qu, Bin Zhang, Yao Pan, Pengbo Xiao

“…In this paper, a finite element model of a cylindrical shell resonator actuated by piezoelectric electrodes with different thicknesses is built to investigate the vibrational characteristics. …”
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Rate-Dependent Hysteresis Model Based on LS-SVM for Magnetic Shape Memory Alloy Actuator by Mengyao Wang, Zhenze Liu, Yewei Yu, Xiaoning Yang, Wei Gao

Subjects: “…magnetic shape memory alloy actuator…”
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Improving Critical Frequency of the Electrothermal V-Shaped Actuator Using the Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm by Phuc Hong Pham, Phuc Truong Duc, Kien Trung Hoang, Ngoc-Tam Bui

“…., expanding the effective working frequency range) of an electrothermal V-shaped actuator (EVA). The obtained results are based on applying the finite difference model, a method for calculating the critical frequency, as well as conditions to ensure the mechanical stability and thermal safety of EVA. …”
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Finite-Time Control for Markovian Jump Systems with Polytopic Uncertain Transition Description and Actuator Saturation by Zhongyi Tang

“…The systems considered time-varying delays, actuator saturation, and polytopic uncertain transition description. …”
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A New Numerical Procedure for Vibration Analysis of Beam under Impulse and Multiharmonics Piezoelectric Actuators by Yassin Belkourchia, Lahcen Azrar

“…The efficiency and applicability of the proposed approach are demonstrated in the computation of the dynamic behavior of beams for various boundary conditions and excited by impulse and Multiharmonics piezoelectric actuators. The obtained numerical results are well compared to the developed analytical solution.…”
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A New Type of Magnetic Actuator Capable of Wall-Climbing Movement Using Inertia Force by H. Yaguchi, S. Sakuma, T. Kato

“…This paper proposes a new type of a magnetic actuator that operates on a resonance energy of a mass-spring model by using an electromagnetic force. …”
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