To overcome the limitations of the independent stacked hybrid actuator with multiple sensors, a new hybrid linear actuator combines the advantages of both technologies: piezo actuator for extremely high accuracy and motorized stage for long travel ranges. A hybrid linear actuator prototype is developed for testing in our satellite tracking antenna pointing control system. For the maximum absolu...

Sliding mode controller for a vehicle active suspension system is designed in this study. The widely used quarter car model is preferred and it is aimed to improve the ride comfort of the passengers. The effect of the actuator time delay, which may arise due to the information processing, sensors or actuator dynamics, is also taken into account during the design of the controller. A sliding mod...

This paper deals with the problem of reliable guaranteed cost control for linear descriptor time-delay systems with actuator failure. The actuator failure mold adopted in this paper is in complete form to describe variation of the actuator. To design a controller such that, for admissible actuator failures, the plant remains asymptotically stable and guarantees an adequate level of a quadratic ...

A high redundancy actuator (HRA) is composed of a high number of actuation elements, increasing both the travel and the force over the power of an individual element. This provides inherent fault tolerance, because when an element fails, the capabilities of the actuator may be reduced, but it does not become dysfunctional. This paper analyses the likelihood of different reductions in capabiliti...

This paper presents a low-profile bidirectional folding actuator based on annealed shape memory alloy sheets applicable for mesoand microscale systems. Despite the advantages of shape memory alloys—high strain, silent operation, and mechanical simplicity—their application is often limited to unidirectional operation. We present a bidirectional folding actuator that produces two opposing 180 mot...

The optimization of trajectories and actuator torques for a dual arm manipulation system is considered. Given the starting and nal conngurations, we nd the trajectories that minimize (a) the integral of the norm of the vector of derivatives of the actuator forces; and (b) the integral of the norm of the actuator forces. In this way both kinematic and actuator redundancy are resolved. The optimi...

This paper deals with a recently developed actuator based on piezoelectric bimorphs which are useful for ASAC applications. The actuator takes the form of two channels with pairs of bimorphs. Each of the bimorph transducers in the couple is connected separately so that the actuator can act in both moment and force configurations simultaneously. The control algorithm allows the ratio between the...

We present the architecture and code design for a highly scalable, 2.5 Gb/s per user optical code division multiple access (OCDMA) system. The system is scalable to 100 potential and more than 10 simultaneous users, each with a bit error rate (BER) of less than 10. The system architecture uses a fast wavelength-hopping, time-spreading codes. Unlike frequency and phase sensitive coherent OCDMA s...

We calculate call and burst blocking probabilities (CBP and BBP respectively) in a single link loss system accommodating service-classes of ONOFF traffic calls, either of high or low bandwidth requirements. To benefit high speed calls the bandwidth reservation (BR) policy is considered (ON-OFF/BR model). Poisson arriving calls enter the system via state ON and may alternate between states ON an...

In the present paper, the inference of Cross-Phase Modulation and Cross Gain experiments on InGaAsP-based semiconductor optical amplifiers and Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (MZI) switches along with a novel characterization method for semiconductor optical amplifiers MZI switches which combines a pump-probe measurement with an interferometer bias scan are shown. For the 150-fs input pulses, a str...