This paper presents design procedures of a transverse flux linear motor (TFLM). The minimum and maximum flux linkage was determined by the simplified equivalent magnetic circuit and estimated average magnetic flux density at the air gap region by considering the shape of applied magnetomotive force (MMF). With this information, the number of turns of each phase winding was calculated based on t...

In response to rising demand for high performance actuators to serve nano-technology, a linear ultrasonic motor was designed and constructed to verify its potential as a viable nano-actuator. After establishing the analytical model that elucidates the physics of the ultrasonic motor operation, experimental performance tests were conducted in a fully digital controlled real-time control environm...

UNLABELLED Sensory-motor adaptation is usually conceived as an automatic process that maintains the calibration between motor plans and movement outcomes. Viewed as a mechanism that monitors disturbances and produces compensatory motor outputs, sensory-motor adaptation can be thought of as a filter. The first question one normally asks regarding filter performance is whether it is linear. We te...

Given the non-linearities of the neural circuitry's elements, we would expect cortical circuits to respond non-linearly when activated. Surprisingly, when two points in the motor cortex are activated simultaneously, the EMG responses are the linear sum of the responses evoked by each of the points activated separately. Additionally, the corticospinal transfer function is close to linear, implyi...