Magnetostrictive actuators play an important role in the perception of usefulness of smart
materials and devices. Their applications are potentially wider than that of piezoelectric …

Piezomicropositioning actuators, which are widely used in micropositioning applications,
exhibit strong rate-dependent hysteresis nonlinearities that affect the accuracy of these …

Apart from the output-input hysteresis loops, the magnetostrictive actuators also exhibit
asymmetry and saturation, particularly under moderate to large magnitude inputs and at …

Reluctance actuators, being capable of providing high force densities, have been widely
adopted for solving the task of high force applications. However, the strong non-linearity in …

The paper outlines the basic features concerning the design of'embedded'control and
compensation algorithms suitable to be employed in smart sensors and actuators, for real …

We present a fiber optic magnetic field sensor conceived for magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) applications. The sensor is based on the integration of fiber optic strain sensors (fiber …

Magnetostrictive actuators invariably exhibit hysteresis nonlinearities that tend to become
significant under high rates of inputs, and could cause oscillations and error in the micro …

We present a method for real-time estimation of the hysteresis in an electromagnetic
actuator in the presence of a changing air gap. We model the actuator with a lumped …

The paper proposes a phenomenological model for magneto-elastic interactions in
materials with hysteresis, where both mechanical and magnetic variables are fully coupled …

We extend the well-known inversion result for Prandtl–Ishlinskii operators to the case of time
dependent thresholds. The exact inversion formula is shown to hold under the condition that …