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Emerging Actuator Technologies - A Mechatronic Approach is application oriented and provides an integrated overview of emerging actuator technologies with rigorous sections on principles. The book outlines the principles and characteristics of the technology and deals with the integration into control systems as well as looking at expected application fields. Starting with a general description of actuators and mechatronics, the book presents a comprehensive overview of the technology. Each chapter is dedicated to a particular novel actuator and dealt with in detail. This book covers piezoelectric actuators, shape memory actuators, electro-active polymers, electro and magneto-rheological fluid actuators and magnetostrictive actuators.

INDICE: Preface. 1. Actuators in Motion Control Systems: Mechatronics. What is an actuator? Transducing materials as a basis for actuator design. The role of the actuator in a control system: sensing, processing and acting. What is Mechatronics? Principles and bio-mimesis. Concomitant actuation and sensing: smart structures. Figures of merit of actuator technologies. A classification of actuator technologies. Emerging vs. traditional actuator technologies. Scope of the book: emerging actuators. Other actuator technologies. 2. Piezoelectric Actuators. Piezoelectricity and Piezoelectric Materials. Constitutive equ... Etc.