The fascinating molecular motors ubiquitous in biological systems offer a great source of inspiration for the design of artificial motors and in the quest to achieve controlled movement at the molecular level. Synthetic chemists are involved in the challenging endeavor to exploit ormimic the properties of these intriguingmolecules found in nature. Movement in biological systems can be divided i...

Piezoelectric motors are used in many industrial and commercial applications. Various piezoelectric motors are available in the market. All of the piezoelectric motors use the inverse piezoelectric effect, where microscopically small oscillatory motions are converted into continuous or stepping rotary or linear motions. Methods of obtaining long moving distance have various drive and functional...

Linear motors offer several advantages over their rotary counterparts in many precision manufacturing applications requiring linear motion; linear motors can achieve a much higher speed and have the potential of gaining a higher load positioning accuracy due to the elimination of mechanical transmission mechanisms. However, these advantages are obtained at the expense of added difficulties in c...

A coil-gun uses pulsed currents of large magnitude to propel ferrous projectiles at high speeds. The various problems associated with high currents and magnetic fields are discussed, as well as the components and design of my experimental coil-gun. I tested the coil-gun at various charge voltages and different projectile sizes, then calculated the efficiency of the coil-gun with measured values...

In this paper a new structure of the linear transverse flux machine will be presented. It is a combination of a hybrid linear stepper motor and of a linear transverse flux machine with permanent magnets. The design algorithm of the proposed structure will be presented in detail. Upon this algorithm a motor required by a specific application was designed. Several programming packages were used d...

We review the properties of biological motor proteins which move along linear filaments that are polar and periodic. The physics of the operation of such motors can be described by simple stochastic models which are coupled to a chemical reaction. We analyze the essential features of force and motion generation and discuss the general properties of single motors in the framework of two-state mo...

Biomotors have been classified into linear and rotational motors. For 35 years, it has been popularly believed that viral dsDNA-packaging apparatuses are pentameric rotation motors. Recently, a third class of hexameric motor has been found in bacteriophage phi29 that utilizes a mechanism of revolution without rotation, friction, coiling, or torque. This review addresses how packaging motors con...

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This work analyzes the advantages of Artificial Neural Networks applied to sensorless control for Switched Reluctance Motors. Due to the non-linear electrical characteristics of Switched Reluctance Motors, Artificial Neural Networks perform a good tool and for torque ripple minimization in Switched Reluctance Motors. The simulation results to prove the efficiency of a multilayer perceptron in o...