• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.765-784
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• 2014

In comparison with conventional shape memory actuated structures, antagonistic shape memory alloy (SMA) actuators permits a fully reversible two-way response and higher response frequency. However, excessive internal stress could adversely reduce the stroke of the actuators under repeated use. The two-way shape memory effect might further decrease the range of the recovered strain under actuation of an antagonistic SMA actuator unless additional components (e.g., spring and stopper) are added to regain the overall actuation capability. In this paper, the performance of all four possible types of SMA actuation schemes is investigated in detail with emphasis on five key properties: recovered strain, cyclic degradation, response frequency, self-sensing control accuracy, and controllable maximum output. The testing parameters are chosen based on the maximization of recovered strain. Three types of these actuators are antagonistic SMA actuators, which drive with two active SMA wires in two directions. The antagonistic SMA actuator with an additional pair of springs exhibits wider displacement range, more stable performance under reuse, and faster response, although accurate control cannot be maintained under force interference. With two additional stoppers to prevent the over stretch of the spring, the results showed that the proposed structure could achieve significant improvement on all five properties. It can be concluded that, the last type actuator scheme with additional spring and stopper provide much better applicability than the other three in most conditions. The results of the performance analysis of all four SMA actuators could provide a solid basis for the practical design of SMA actuators.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.1509-1514
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• 2011

IT 제품의 핵심 전자부품에는 MLCC, chip inductors, chip Varistors 등이 있다. chip의 전기적 특성을 검사하기 위해 리노핀을 이용한 접촉검사 방식이 사용되고 있다. 리노핀을 이용한 칩 검사에 고속으로 구동할 수 있는 Actuator가 필요하다. 그 중 PZT Actuator는 압전소자를 이용한 마이크로 Actuator의 하나로 높은 분해능 및 좋은 응답성 그리고 큰 힘을 낼 수 있는 장점을 가지고 있다. 하지만 진동변위가 매우 작다는 단점이 있다. 그래서 이러한 단점을 극복하기 위하여 변위 증폭구조를 설계하는 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 유연힌지를 이용한 지레구조 증폭기구를 설계하였으며, 반도체칩 검사장비 산업분야에서 성능검사 및 전기적 특성을 측정할 수 있는 리노핀용 고속구동 Actuator 시스템을 개발하였다.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.651-656
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• 2019

본 논문은 오염물질 제거를 위한 외팔보 엑츄에이터 시스템 구조 및 구현에 관한 연구이다. 건축물의 외벽에 설치되는 외관 자재들 중 특히 유리의 경우 외부 노출로 인해 단기간에 오염이 된다. 이와 같은 오염물질은 미관상의 퇴색은 물론 사용자에게 보건상의 문제를 야기할 수 있다. 또한 최근 신재생에너지원으로 태양광 패널에 대한 수요가 많이 증가되고 있는데, 이와 같은 태양광 패널의 발전량은 먼지 등에 의해 감소될 수 있으며, 입사량의 감소는 결국 발전량을 저해하는 문제를 야기할 수 있기 때문에 먼지와 같은 오염물질을 주기적으로 제거하는 방안이 필요하다. 일반적으로 전문 작업자가 외벽에 붙은 오염물질을 제거하는 경우가 많은데, 안정성을 확보하였다 하더라도 현장에서 발생하는 여러 가지 돌발 변수로 인해 사고가 종종 발생하고 있다. 따라서 이와 같은 단점을 극복하기 위하여 외팔보 엑츄에이터 구조 시스템을 제안하였다. 외팔보 엑츄에이터에 대한 구조적인 시스템을 구성하고 시제품을 제작하여 동작성을 확인하였다. 최종적으로는 외팔보 엑츄에이터의 오염물질 제거에 대한 효용성을 검토하였다.

• Composites Research
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.41-47
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• 2003

본 논문은 몇 가지 종류의 압전 복합재료 작동기 LIPCA의 성능 시험 및 비교에 관한 것이다. LIPCA는 압전 세라믹을 중심으로 상층부는 탄성계수가 크면서 열팽창계수가 낮은 섬유강화 복합재료 층이, 하층부는 탄성계수가 작으면서 열팽창계수가 큰 섬유강화 복합재료 층으로 구성되어 있다. 작동기의 성능 검증을 위해 작동 지그 및 전압 공급 장치 그치고 비접촉 레이저 센서로 이루어진 실험 시스템을 구성하였다 성능 비교시험 결과 검증실험으로부터 압전 작동기의 작동성능은 전기 작동 재료층이 중립면으로부터 멀리 벗어나게 위치하면서, 동시에 적층판의 전체 굽힘 강성을 작게 하면 극대화할 수 있다는 사실을 입증하였다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2009년도 제40회 하계학술대회
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• pp.1743_1744
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a double network control approach for linear systems. Generally, there are two network control system structures: the direct structure and the hierarchical structure. Here, the hierarchical structure consists of a main controller and a remote controller. The network delay of the structure only appears in the closed loop between the main controller and the remote system. However, the delay can exist between the remote controller and the actuator. Therefore, we design the double network system with delays between the main controller and the remote system, and the remote controller and the actuator. Finally, we carry out simulations on the linear system to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control method.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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• 제52권7호
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• pp.298-304
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• 2003

IPMC(Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite) is a highly sensitive actuator that shows a large deformation in presence of low applied voltage. Generally, IPMC can be fabricated by electroless plating of platinum on both sides of a Nafion (perfluorosulfonic acid) film. When a commercial Nafion film is used as a base structure of the IPMC membrane, the micro-pump structure and the IPMC membrane are fabricated separately and then later assembled, which makes the fabrication inefficient. Therefore, fabrication of an IPMC membrane and the micro-pump structure on a single wafer without the need of assembly have been developed. The silicon wafer was partially etched to hold liquid Nafion to be casted and a 60-${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ thick IPMC membrane was realized. IPMC membranes with various size were fabricated by casting and they showed 4-2${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ displacements from $4mm{\times}4mm$ , $6mm{\times}6mm$, $8mm{\times}8mm$ membranes at the applied voltage ranging from 2Vp-p to 5Vp-p at 0.5Hz. The displacement of the fabricated IPMC membranes is fairly proportional to the membrane area and the applied voltage.

• Computational Structural Engineering : An International Journal
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.89-96
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• 2001

A study on the topology optimization of a Hard-Disk-Driver(HDD) actuator arm is presented. The purpose of the present wert is to increase the natural frequency of tole first lateral mode of the HDD actuator arm under the constraint of total moment of inertia, so as to facilitate the position control of the high speed actuator arm. The first lateral mode is an important factor in the position control process. Thus the topology optimization for 2-D model of the HDD actuator arm is considered. A new objective function corresponding to multieigenvalue optimization is suggested to improve the solution of the eigenvalue optimization problem. The material density of the structure is treated as the design variable and the intermediate density is penalized. The effects of different element types and material property functions on the final topology are studied. When the problem is discretized using 8-node element of a uniform density, tole smoothly-varying density field is obtained without checker-board patterns incurred. AS a result of 7he study, an improved design of the HDD actuator arm is suggested. Dynamic characteristics of the suggested design are compared computationally with those of the old design. With the same amount of the moment of inertia, the natural frequency of the first lateral mode of the suggested design is subsequently increased over the existing one.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.348-355
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• 2016

Precision motion stages used in the manufacturing process of flat-panel displays have inevitably low settling performance due to their huge mass and bulky structures. In order to improve the settling performance, several methods of frame vibration compensation have been developed so far. These methods are used to cancel the vibration by imposing a counter force or modifying the resonance mode of the frame of the stage. To compensate the frame vibration, high force actuators are required. In this paper, a mighty voice coil actuator is proposed to generate the counter force against the frame vibration. The proposed voice coil actuator has an axis-symmetric rectangular structure to achieve a large force with simple and low cost fabrication. Also, the voice coil actuator allows radial clearance up to ${\pm}4mm$. Using an optimized design process and a magnetic circuit model, the power consumption is minimized while the required force is obtained. With a power of 322 W, the VCA has been designed to have a maximum force of 574 N with a force constant of 164 N/A. Experimental results verified the force constant of the fabricated voice coil actuator is well matched with the designed value.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기기기및에너지변환시스템부문B
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• 제51권5호
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• pp.234-241
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• 2002

An optical pickup actuator is an objective-lens-moving mechanism that provides a means to follow the disk displacement accurately(1). In this paper, a slim type optical pickup actuator for Notebook PCs is analyzed and designed to improve the driving sensitivity A three dimensional equivalent magnetic circuit network method (3D-EMCN method) is proposed for an analysis method which provides better characteristics in both precision and computation time of analysis comparing with a commercial three-dimensional finite element (3D-FEM) codes. To verify the validity of proposed method, we made a comparison between the analysis results and the experimental ones. We also compared this analysis results with 3D-FEM results. Among the several optimal algorithm, we adopt a niching genetic algorithm, which renders a set of the multiple optimal solutions. RCS (Restricted Competition Selection) niching genetic algorithm is used for optimal design of the actuator's performance. Recently, the pickup actuator needs additional driving structure for radial and tangential tilting motion to obtain better pick-up performance. So we applied the proposed method to the model containing tilting coils.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2011년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.307-309
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• 2011

최근 출시되는 고사양의 Hand-phone 적용되어진 Camera Module은 대부분 Auto Focusing기능이 탑재되어 있으며 Camera Module의 화소수가 높아지면서 좀 더 정밀하고 안정적인 AF구동제품이 소비자에 의해 요구되고 있다. 본 논문은 현재 출시되고 있는 Camera Module적용 VCM(Actuator)의 문제점인 Auto Focusing시 Lens 초점위치 및 Module 자세에 따른 해상도편차 발생으로 해상도 보증 및 안정된 Actuator 구동을 위해 개선된 구조의 Hybrid VCM을 제안한다.