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Modeling of the air film pressure for a haptic touch actuator

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A variety of reconfigurable surface devices, utilizing large numbers of actuated physical pixels to produce discretized 3D contours, have been developed for different purposes in research and industry. The difficulty of integrating many actuators in close ...

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Large Array of Shape Memory Polymer Actuators for Haptics and Microfluidics

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Elastic gridshells comprise an initially planar network of elastic rods that are actuated into a shell-like structure by loading their extremities. The resulting actuated form derives from the elastic buckling of the rods subjected to inextensibility. We s ...

National Academy of Sciences2018

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Thanks to better actuator technologies and control algorithms, humanoid robots to date can perform a wide range of locomotion activities outside lab environments. These robots face various control challenges like high dimensionality, contact switches durin ...

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Topics in Educational Cyber-Physical Labs : Configurations, Data Collection and Analysis

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