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Actuator Device Component

Known as: Actuator 
A device designed to automate an action.
National Institutes of Health

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Medical Device Component or Accessory

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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Performance Improvement of IPMC (Ionic Polymer Metal Composites) for a Flapping Actuator
In this paper, a trade-off design and fabrication of IPMC (Ionic Polymer Metal Composites) as an actuator for a flapping device… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Hover Testing of a Small-Scale Rotor with On-Blade Elevons
Abstract : A two-bladed, 7.5-ft diameter dynamic rotor model with 10% chord on-blade elevons driven by piezoceramic bimorph… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Static fiber-Bragg grating strain sensing using frequency-locked lasers
Novel and highly sensitive static strain interrogation technique is demonstrated, where the sensing element is a fiber-Bragg… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Intelligent control of spacecraft in the presence of actuator failures
We prove the stability of a recently proposed scheme for failure detection and identification (FDI) and adaptive reconfigurable… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Micromachined polysilicon microscanners for barcode readers
We describe the design and fabrication of micromachined resonant scanners that have large scan angles at fast scan speeds. Driven… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Induced strain actuation of composite beams and rotor blades with embedded piezoceramic elements
The objective of this research is to develop a dynamically scaled (Froude scale) helicopter rotor blade with embedded… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
On the representation of sensor faults in fault detection filters
Presents an extension of the well known Beard-Jones detection filter that permits the isolation of sensor faults in a dynamic… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Distributed Modal Identification and Vibration Control of Continua: Theory and Applications
Conventional transducers and actuators are "discrete" in nature, i.e., they usually measure and control spatially discrete… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Adaptive Pneumatic Force Actuation and Position Control
In this paper an implementation of an adaptive control law for a pneumatic actuator is presented. Pneumatic actuators are of… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Bistability and metastability of the gallium vacancy in GaAs: The actuator of EL2?
We have used the Green's-function technique to carry out electronic-structure and total-energy calculations for the gallium… 
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