• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.429-435
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• 2007

A number of different alternative actuation methods have been under active development for some specific applications where the traditional electromechanical actuators are difficult to apply. Recently, many of these substitutes are trying to employ new smart materials like electroactive polymers. However most of the polymeric materials are flexible and vulnerable so that they normally can not sustain external forces. Although the materials have shown a good potential to be used for alternative actuation mechanisms, no tangible industrial application is yet presented because of the reason. A conceptual design for a rectilinear motion actuator using dielectric elastomer is presented in this article. The introduced design concept might enable to produce fairly controllable rectilinear motions for various applications and the presented prototype actuator system is fully packaged in a small unit and controlled by a standard communication interface.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1996.07a
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• pp.50-52
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• 1996

The exiting apparatus for rectilinear reciprocating motion has low efficiency because of various mechanical converting equipments from rotary motion. The LOA(Linear Oscillation Actuator) is the rectilinear reciprocating actuator. This paper shows the operating principle of bifiler winding LOA and the comparison the characteristics of thrust force of no tapered moving core type LOA with the tapered one. Through FEM analysis tapered LOA has the lower peak force and longer stroke than no tapered LOA.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.161-162
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• 2008

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.894-903
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• 2008

In this paper, we present an artificial muscle actuator producing rectilinear motion, called the Tube-Spring-Actuator(TSA). The TSA is supposed to be a prospective substitute in areas requiring macro forces such as robotics. It is simply configured from a synthetic elastomer tube with an inserted spring. The design of the TSA is described in detail and its analysis is conducted to investigate the characteristics of the actuator based on the derived model. In addition, the performance of the proposed actuator is tested via experiments.