Tactile feedback control for a gripper driven by SMA springs

This paper presents a gripper actuated by a pair of differential shape memory alloy (SMA) springs with the tactile feedback controller of the polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) films. The SMA actuator is heated by the electric current and cooled by the fans, and a proportional-integral (PI) controller i...

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Main Authors: Shaoze Yan, Tianfu Yang, Xiajie Liu, Rencheng Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2012-09-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4745607