Development of Miniature Stewart Platform Using TiNiCu Shape-Memory-Alloy Actuators

A Stewart platform is a parallel manipulator robot that is able to perform three linear movements, lateral, longitudinal, and vertical, and three rotations, pitch, yaw, and roll. This paper reports a 30 mm × 30 mm × 34 mm miniscale Stewart platform using TiNiCu shape-memory-alloy (SMA) actuators. Th...

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Main Authors: Alaa AbuZaiter, Ee Leen Ng, Suhail Kazi, Mohamed Sultan Mohamed Ali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/928139