Results obtained from an actual cooperative manipulator, which is able to work as a fully actuated and an underactuated manipulator, are presented.
Experimental measurements, of a piezoelectrically actuated and sensed resonator, over a temperature range of 60°C, showed that variation of the zero-rate offset was decreased by an order of magnitude by the force-to-rebalance control.
AUTOPULSE is a load distributing band compressor, that is mechanically actuated and battery driven.
Shutters are automatically actuated and sources are thermally conditioned based on recipe inputs which allows for a repeatable process.
This chapter presents the different options for actuating and controlling a rehabilitation device, considering the complex flow of information between the user and the robot during a rehabilitation task and proposing a range of tools to address both high- and low-level control strategies.
A series of performance indices are given to allow a wide range comparison of materials for several typical sensing and actuating structures, and a rapid identification of candidates for a given task.
A working prototype was developed and the experimental investigations show that the synthesized 3-DOF CPM can achieved a large workspace of 8°×8°×5.5 mm, high stiffness ratios, i.e., >200 for non-actuating over actuating stiffness, and a measured natural frequency of 84.4 Hz.
The tester is designed to actuate and measure six springs at a time to increase the rate at which testing data is gathered.
Pushing this flap inward from its vertical resting position allowed subjects access to the food tray, and actuated a microswitch, and each switch closure was recorded as a single response; the flap automatically returned to its resting position when the rat removed its head from the food tray.
The tracked mobile system is comprised of a sandwich actuating mechanism and a metal track.
