Cellular Actuators. Modularity and Variability in Muscle-Inspired Actuation

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Cellular Actuators: Modularity and Variability in Muscle-Inspired Actuation describes the roles actuators play in robotics and their insufficiency in emerging new robotic applications, such as wearable devices and human co-working robots where compactness and compliance are important. Piezoelectric actuators, the topic of this book, provide advantages like displacement scale, force, reliability, and compactness, and rely on material properties to provide displacement and force as reactions to electric stimulation. The authors, renowned researchers in the area, present the fundamentals of muscle-like movement and a system-wide study that includes the design, analysis, and control of biologically inspired actuators. This book is the perfect guide for researchers and practitioners who would like to deploy this technology into their research and products. Content: Front Matter,Copyright,List of figures,List of tables,IntroductionEntitled to full text1 - Structure of cellular actuators, Pages 1-44 2 - Modeling of cellular actuators, Pages 45-119 3 - Control of cellular actuators, Pages 121-211 4 - Application of cellular actuators, Pages 213-276 5 - Conclusion, Pages 277-279 Nomenclature, Pages 281-285 Appendix, Pages 287-317 Bibliography, Pages 319-334 Index, Pages 335-346