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ICRA
2003
IEEE
134views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
13 years 9 months ago
Development of piezoelectric bending actuators with embedded piezoelectric sensors for micromechanical flapping mechanisms
This paper presents the fabrication and the testing of piezoelectric unimorph actuators with embedded piezoelectric sensors which are meant to be used for the actuation of the Mic...
Domenico Campolo, Ranjana Sahai, Ronald S. Fearing
ISCAS
2007
IEEE
84views Hardware» more  ISCAS 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
Piezo-powered floating gate injector for self-powered fatigue monitoring in biomechanical implants
— In this paper we describe an implementation and modeling of a novel fatigue monitoring sensor based on integration of piezoelectric transduction with floating gate avalanche in...
Nizar Lajnef, Shantanu Chakrabartty, Niell Elvin, ...
CORR
2008
Springer
83views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 3 months ago
Modeling of a piezoelectric micro-scanner
Micro-scanners have been widely used in many optical applications. The micro-scanner presented in this paper uses multimorph-type bending actuators to tilt a square plate mirror. ...
A. Chaehoi, M. Begbie, D. Cornez, K. Kirk
GECCO
2006
Springer
137views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
Evolutionary design of fault-tolerant analog control for a piezoelectric pipe-crawling robot
In this paper, a genetic algorithm (GA) is used to design faulttolerant analog controllers for a piezoelectric micro-robot. Firstorder and second-order functions are developed to ...
Geoffrey A. Hollinger, David A. Gwaltney
ICRA
2005
IEEE
257views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
13 years 9 months ago
Nonlinear Performance Limits for High Energy Density Piezoelectric Bending Actuators
Abstract— To keep pace with recent advances in microrobotic structures demands actuator technologies which can deliver high power and precise motion. For electroactive material b...
Robert J. Wood, Erik Steltz, Ronald S. Fearing