The results show that, the actuation of the accumulators lead to postponing the reactor vessel failure.
The results also show that bending actuation of the Aquivion membrane with 40wt% EMI-Tf is much larger than that of Nafion, indicating that the shorter flexible side chains improve the electromechanical coupling between the excess ions and the membrane backbones, while not affecting the actuation speed.
With this control, we show that dynamic actuation of electromagnets held outside a domain can be used to position a droplet of ferrofluid to any desired location and steer it along any desired path within that domain an example of precision control of a ferrofluid by magnets acting at a distance.
We show that different actuation mechanisms lead to similar actuators, capable of complex and smooth movements in 3d space.
The experimental results obtained show that introducing actuation redundancy increases the dynamic capabilities of the robots.
We show that the actuation is based on electro-osmosis with the electric field generated by chemical reactions at the metal and silicon surfaces, whereas the contribution of diffusio-osmosis to the actuation is negligible.
It is shown that out-of-phase actuation has higher authority in exciting the lower order bending modes, while in-phase actuation has higher authority in exciting the higher order circumferential modes.
Figure 3e shows that the tensile actuation of paraffin-infiltrated MWCNT-coiled yarn consisted of a layer of various numbers of MWCNT sheets under the same weight (~5 mN) during heating.
Results show that active piezoelectric actuation can effectively increase the critical aerodynamic pressure by retarding the coalescence of flutter modes and compensating thermal stresses.
Figure 5 shows the open-loop actuation of four microrobots from their initial positions to the caging locations.
