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Precise positioning over a long stroke is required in various fields. Important advances in the field of electromagnetic motors, piezoelectric actuators and bearing technology allow nanometric and sub-arc-second resolution for linear or rotary actuators, r ...
Designing transducers or motors, requires the analysis of a lot of parameters such as length, temperature, efficiency, weight, etc. The solution to obtain the optimum results for given specifications is to analyze globally all the free parameters in one go ...
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Usually, each phase of the direct reluctance motor is fed separately by its own inverter producing a squarewave phase current depending on the rotor position. In the present work, a star-connection of the three stator phases is used and the direct reluctan ...
The number of brushless DC (BLDC) motor applications has increased significantly, essentially due to reduced costs of semiconductors and permanent magnets, but also because of the emergence of new control strategies, such as closed-loop and sensorless cont ...
To design transducers or motors, it requires the analysis of a lot of parameters such as length, temperature, efficiency, weight, etc. To obtain the optimum results for given specifications, the solution is to analyze globally all the free parameters in on ...
In this paper, a method for sensorless position estimation of linear transducers at standstill is suggested. The method makes use of current pulses, which is a common sensorless starting technique for 3-phase synchronous motors. Most transducers possess ho ...
In this paper, an improved design of an electrostatic polysilicon microrelay with metallic contacts is presented. The polysilicon layer is used for the actuator while the nickel and gold layers are used for the contacts. Improved contact resistance is demo ...