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Scale effects and thermal considerations for micro-actuators
Proceedings. 1998 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Cat. No.98CH36146)
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This paper analyses scale effects for actuator types which are strong candidates for micro-actuation: shape memory alloys (SMAS), electrostatic, electromagnetic and piezoelectric actuators. SMA actuators are studied in detail and compared to the other actuator types on a basis of force, response time, and power densi~. Much of the analysis is based on thermal aspects and scaling effects on both convective and conductive heat transfer, which is a quite novel approach. Results of this thermal
doi:10.1109/robot.1998.677333
dblp:conf/icra/PeirsRB98
fatcat:ugvki2miwbajpf3qoo2yybbybq