Design Rules for Actuators in Active Mechanical Systems

In active mechanical systems (mechanisms or structures) the possibility of a coupling between active and passive elements at an early stage of the design process is becoming more and more significant. In order to integrate actuators in preliminary design

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Oriol Gomis-Bellmunt • Lucio Flavio Campanile

Design Rules for Actuators in Active Mechanical Systems

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Oriol Gomis-Bellmunt, Dr. CITCEA-UPC (Technical University of Catalonia) Avinguda Diagonal, 647 08028 Barcelona Spain [email protected]

Lucio Flavio Campanile, Dr. Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (EMPA) Überlandstrasse 129 8600 Dübendorf Switzerland [email protected]

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Preface

The seed of this book was set in 2003, at the Institute of Structural Mechanics of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Braunschweig. Oriol joined the Institute as a Marie Curie Fellow and Flavio, as a memb