NEWS - 2014/2015:
Special Issue on "High Resolution Actuators"
(MDPI Actuators)
Driven by increasing societal, economic, and technological pressures, high-resolution actuators must achieve ever increasing accuracy requirements and functional integration into the system. High-resolution actuators have been used for
many decades for the development of actuators in different applications, such as microrobotics for micromanipulation and microassembly, scanning probe microscopy, medical, military, aerospace, robots, and, more generally, in mechatronic
systems dedicated to tasks that require high-resolution features. These actuators are based on smart materials and also more conventional mechatronic actuators that can achieve interesting performances with a high-resolution, either
in position or in force.
The advantages of smart materials-based actuators (piezoelectric, magnetic, magnetostrictive, electroactive polymers, magnetoactive polymers, shape memory alloys, magnetic shape memory alloys, thermally active materials, …)
are numerous including the high resolution of positioning and the ease of integration in miniaturized systems. Some of them can provide very high bandwidth, whilst others a very high stiffness, or high range of deformation and thus of positioning.
Optimal designs of mechatronic actuators together with appropriate control strategies have often lead to very interesting solutions in terms of force or position characteristics. Nonlinear phenomena at the basis of the design rationale (friction, backlash, hysteresis, …)
can be efficiently treated to provide the actuation with high-resolution performances in terms of position or force.
The objective of this Special Issue is to investigate new techniques, technologies, results, principles and surveys for actuators that are characterized by high-resolution performances. The issue will provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their
most recent accomplishments, challenges, advances in this area, and we also encourage future research directions in the field. Contributions from industry are encouraged, and both theoretical and experimental works are welcome.
otential topics include, but are not limited, to:
- Position- and/or force-controlled actuators with high resolution
- Nonlinear modeling of high resolution actuators (friction, hysteresis, creep, …)
- Novel multiphysic transduction for actuators
- Improved smart materials for high performances actuators
- Optimal or robust design of actuators
- Actuators with self-sensing measurement
- Smart materials-based actuators with collocated sensors
- Piezoelectric, magnetic or magnetostrictive actuators
- Electroactive and magnetoactive polymers-based actuators
- Shape memory alloys and magnetic shape memory alloys-based actuators
- Thermal actuators
- Electrostatic actuators
- Hybrid actuators
Manuscript submission
More information on the information for authors for the submission can be found here: Information regarding the Special Issue.
Download the CFP: CFP for the Special Issue
Important dates
Paper Submission..........................................................................March 31, 2015
Completion of First Review................................................................May 31, 2015
Submission of Revised Papers..............................................................June 30, 2015
Completion of Final Review................................................................September 30, 2015
Submission of Final Manuscripts and Copyright Forms.......................................October 31, 2015
Publication...............................................................................December 2015
Guest Editors
Dr Mathieu Grossard
Robotics Laboratory,
CEA LIST Institute,
Gif-sur-Yvette,
Paris France.
Email: mathieu.grossard 'at' cea 'dot' fr
Micky Rakotondrabe
Department of Automatic Control and MicroMechatronic Systems (AS2M)
FEMTO-ST Institute
CNRS UMR6174 - University of Franche-Comté at Besançon - ENSMM - UTBM
Besancon, France.
Email:mrakoton 'at' femto-st 'dot' fr
Webmaster: Micky Rakotondrabe.