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An actuator is a component of a machine that produces force, torque, or displacement, usually in a controlled way, when an electrical, pneumatic or hydraulic...
Actuate may refer to: Actuate Corporation The action of an actuator This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Actuate. If an internal...
Look up actuation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Actuation may refer to: High Redundancy Actuation (HRA), a new approach to fault tolerant control...
Actuate Corporation is a publicly traded reporting, analytics and customer communications software company based in San Mateo, California, part of the...
A linear actuator is an actuator that creates linear motion (i.e., in a straight line), in contrast to the circular motion of a conventional electric...
A valve actuator is the mechanism for opening and closing a valve. Manually operated valves require someone in attendance to adjust them using a direct...
Plasma actuators are a type of actuator currently being developed for aerodynamic flow control. Plasma actuators impart force in a similar way to ionocraft...
A pneumatic control valve actuator converts energy (typically in the form of compressed air) into mechanical motion. The motion can be rotary or linear...
A rotary actuator is an actuator that produces a rotary motion or torque. The simplest actuator is purely mechanical, where linear motion in one direction...
Actuate UK is an alliance of eight specialist engineering membership associations in the United Kingdom. It was formally launched in February 2021, in...
A moving magnet actuator is a type of electromagnetic linear actuator. It typically consists of an arrangement of a mobile permanent magnet and fixed...
A MEMS magnetic actuator is a device that uses the microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) to convert an electric current into a mechanical output by employing...
scratch drive actuator (SDA) is a microelectromechanical system device that converts electrical energy into one-dimensional motion. The actuator component...
Intelligent Actuator, also called IAI, is a robotics design company. It was founded in Japan in 1976. The company designs, manufactures, and markets a...
dynamics, momentum theory or disk actuator theory is a theory describing a mathematical model of an ideal actuator disk, such as a propeller or helicopter...
Optogenetic actuators are proteins that modify the activity of the cell in which they are expressed when that cell is exposed to light. These actuators can be...
A MEMS thermal actuator is a microelectromechanical device that typically generates motion by thermal expansion amplification. A small amount of thermal...
chain actuator, known variously as a linear chain actuator, push-pull chain actuator, electric chain actuator or column-forming chain actuator, is a specialized...
The Camcon binary actuator is an electronically-controlled electromagnetic actuation device that physically moves in between 2 stable states. Unlike a...
mechanism varies from linear action, plunger-type actuators to pivoted-armature actuators and rocker actuators. The valve can use a two-port design to regulate...
ideal for these actuators to have high power, low mass, and small dimensions. Electric actuators are the most popular types of actuators in humanoid robots...
electric field. The most common applications of this type of material are in actuators and sensors. A typical characteristic property of an EAP is that they...
A bimorph is a cantilever used for actuation or sensing which consists of two active layers. It can also have a passive layer between the two active layers...
electrically-powered compressor powers cylinders, air motors, pneumatic actuators, and other pneumatic devices. A pneumatic system controlled through manual...
An idle air control actuator or idle air control valve (IAC actuator/valve) is a device commonly used in fuel-injected vehicles to control the engine's...
cable. Other mechanical actuation mechanisms exist: see Coaster brakes for back-pedal actuation mechanisms, and rod-actuated brakes for a mechanism incorporating...
Amplified piezoelectric actuators are specific actuators using piezoelectric materials as active material and have a specific design to overcome traditional...