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Study Of Actuator Technologies For A Miniature Distributed, Fazel Naghdy, P Wong, P Carter, N Laszlo, Christopher D. Cook
Study Of Actuator Technologies For A Miniature Distributed, Fazel Naghdy, P Wong, P Carter, N Laszlo, Christopher D. Cook
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Disnibuted Manipulation Environment (DME), is a concept based on the overall modularity of a manufacturing system including actuation, sensing, control, computing hardware and software. The basic building block of DME is the Manipulation Module (MM). Each MM may consist of up to three units including processing the unit, actuating unit and sensory unit. The emphasis of this paper is on the actuating unit of the Manipulation Modules used in DME. The generic features of the actuators suitable for this application are discussed and a review of the motion producing characteristics of the following actuator technologies is presented: electrostatic, electromagnetic, fluid …