Control of nitinol wire actuator.
The Stewart Platform is well known parallel robotic mechanism often used for flight simulators. Less well known applications involve robotics and machine tools. This research deals with Stewart Platforms that use Nitinol wire, a shape memory alloy, as binary actuators that are switched on and off to...
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University of Canterbury. Mechanical Engineering
2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6610 |