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Robust Design of Air Compressor-Driving Quadratic Linear Actuator in Fuel Cell BOP System using Taguchi Method

  • Kim, Jae-Hee;Kim, Jun-Hyung;Kim, Jin-Ho
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.275-279
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    • 2012
  • The linear actuator has the inherent drawback of air gap variation because its linear motion is usually guided by the springs, which destabilizes the dynamic performance. In order to design the linear actuator to be insensitive to air gap, this paper describes the robust design of the air compressor driving linear actuator using Taguchi method. The orthogonal arrays are constructed with selected control factors and noise factor for minimum experiment. The control factors are thickness of inner magnet, height of upper yoke, thickness of outer magnet and thickness of lower yoke while noise factor is airgap. The finite element analysis using commercial electromagnetic analysis program "MAXWELL" are performed instead of experiment. ANOVA are performed to investigate the effects of design factors. In result, the optimal robust linear actuator which is insensitive to air gap variation is designed.

Vibration control of a framed structure by an air-pulse actuator

  • Fujimoto, T.;Fengying, Cao;Mori, Y.
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.152.3-152
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    • 2001
  • This paper describes an application of an air-pulse actuator for vibration control of a framed structure. Dynamic characteristics of the prototype actuator that utilizes an air-jet reaction force pulsated by an electromagnetic valve were investigated to use it as a control actuator. Using a control law based on the sliding mode control theory, experiments of the vibration control were carried out. The experimental results verified the validity of the actuator performance.

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The Development of Performance Evaluation System for Air-Operated Actuaotr (공기구동기 성능평가 시스템 개발)

  • Cho T.D.;Yang S.B.;Lee H.Y.;Yang S.M.;Kwon B.S.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.1770-1773
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    • 2005
  • The performance evaluation of AOV(air-operated valve) requires the processes to confirm the actuator system capability. It is necessary to evaluate the thrust of the air actuator for the margin evaluation. In this paper, to evaluate and analysis the air actuator, the performance test system and operating program are developed. This system is composed of several sensors such as pressure sensor, LVDT, and LoadCell which are used to get the data for evaluation. The LabVIEW was used for developing the operating program. The test system and operating program are proved through the actual test of the diaphragm actuator.

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Improvement of Position Tacking Performance of Magnetostrictive Actuator Using Compressed Air Cooling (압축 공기 냉각을 이용한 자기 변형 액추에이터의 위치 추종 성능 향상)

  • Kwak, Yong-Kil;Hwang, Jin-Dong;Kim, Churl-Min;Kim, Sun-Ho;Ahn, Jung-Hwan
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.51-56
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    • 2007
  • Precision positioning system with magnetostrictive actuator(MA) has widely used in manufacturing devices to control the positioning accuracy to meet the high load and stroke requirements. It has many advantage in comparison with piezoelectric actuator; high force, high strain, high efficient etc. But, the performance of Terfenol-D, the commercially available magnetostrictive material, is highly dependent on the prestress, magnetic field intensity and temperature. This paper present an experimental investigation of the temperature effect on displacement characteristics of magnetostrictive actuator. In this paper, compressed cold air is proposed to improve of positioning accuracy of magnetostrictive actuator. The compressed cold air cooling system has good cooling effect Experimental results confirming the effectiveness of the proposed cooling system as high precision positioning system are also has presented in this paper.

A Study on Thermal Analysis for Magnetostrictive Actuator Using Compressed Air Cooling (압축 공기 냉각을 이용한 자기 변형 구동기의 열해석에 관한 연구)

  • Kwak, Yong-Kil;Mostofa, G.;Hwang, Jin-Dong;Kim, Sun-Ho;Ahn, Jung-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.388-394
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    • 2009
  • Precision positioning system with magnetostrictive actuator(MA) has widely used in manufacturing devices to control the positioning accuracy to meet the high load and stroke requirements. It has many advantage in comparison with piezoelectic actuator; high force, high strain, high efficient etc. But, the performance of Terfenol-D, the commercially available magnetostrictive material, is highly dependent on the prestress, magnetic field intensity and temperature. Therefore, thermal strain of magnetostrictive material obstructs precision position control of magnetostrictive actuator, magnetostrictive actuator is need of cooling system. In this paper, cooling system using compressed cold air is developed and proper temperature and velocity of compressed cold air is studied by thermal analysis according to applied current.

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Mechanism Design of Optical Pickup Actuator for Fast Access of Optical Disk Drive (광디스크 드라이브의 고속 액세스를 위한 광픽업 액추에이터 메커니즘 설계)

  • 박준혁;이상헌;백윤수
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.19 no.12
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    • pp.109-119
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, mechanism design of optical pickup actuator for fast access is proposed. This actuator is composed of moving magnet type actuator and moving coil type actuator for tracking and fine motion, respectively. Moving magnet type tracking actuator is configurated by two permanent magnets and four air-core solenoids. Additional damper by induced current in tracking actuator can reduce the transient vibration between the coarse seeking servo and fine seeking servo. Variable stiffness can be acquired by applying current to air-core solenoid simply. This actuator can achieve fast access by these additional damper and stiffness. Performance of this actuator is predicted through the FEM, simulation and simple experiment. Settling time for transient vibration is reduced to 14.7% according to simulation result.

A Study on the Seal Life Improvement of the Hydraulic Servo Actuator for Steam Control of Power Plants (발전소 스팀제어용 유압서보 액추에이터의 씰 수명 향상에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Yong Bum;Lee, Jong Jik
    • Journal of Drive and Control
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.32-37
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    • 2018
  • The power plants use turbine output control devices to supply or shut off steam to high pressure and low-pressure steam turbines connected to generators. This turbine output control device is driven by a hydraulic servo actuator. The gas flows into the hydraulic servo actuator during periodic inspection or normal operation, and the resulting adiabatic compression of the gas raises the internal temperature of the actuator to $500^{\circ}C$. This temperature increase causes the seals to burn and show wear and tear, resulting in failure. In this study, an air vent valve was installed to allow gas inside the hydraulic servo actuator to flow large quantities of air at the beginning of the operation and after the periodic inspection. Gas was passed through for only minute flow during normal operation of the power plant. By applying the air vent valve, it improves the reliability of the hydraulic servo actuator by discharge the gas appropriately to improve the life of the seal.

Optimal Design of Air Compressor-Driving Quadratic Linear Actuator in Fuel Cell BOP System Using Orthogonal Arrays Matrix

  • Kim, Jae-Hee;Kim, Jin-Ho;Jang, Chang-Hwan
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.120-124
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    • 2011
  • The design of an air compressor-driving quadratic linear actuator in a fuel cell BOP system is studied using orthogonal techniques. The approach utilizes an orthogonal array for design of 'experiments', i.e. the scheme for numerical simulations using a finite element method. Eco-friendly energy is increasingly important due to the depletion of fossil fuels and environmental pollution. Among the new energy sources, fuel cell is spotlighted as renewable energy because it produces few dusts. The air compressor performance is directly related to the efficiency of the fuel cell BOP system has high power consumption. In this paper, an optimized technique using an orthogonal matrix is applied to the design problem to improve the performance of quadratic linear actuator.

A Study on Forced Aspirating Air Supplying Module for Micro Fuel Cell (마이크로 연료전지용 강제 호흡형 공기 공급 모듈에 관한 연구)

  • Hwang, Jun-Young;Yun, Hyo-Jin;Lee, Sang-Ho;Kang, Heui-Seok;Kang, Kyun-Tae
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.05a
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    • pp.49-52
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    • 2008
  • The present study conducts a series of experiments to develop a novel air supplying module for a micro fuel cell using piezoelectric linear actuator. An intermittently and operating air breathing module with reciprocating motion of the linear actuator has been suggested in the present study. A test bench for a micro fuel cell system has been constructed to estimate performance of the active fuel cell system using the air supplying module. With the stroke and operating duty as main control parameters, the optimal operating method of the air supplying module has been discussed.

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Development of Synthetic-Jet based micro air pump for BOP system of mobile fuel cell (모바일 연료전지 BOP를 위한 Synthetic-Jet 기반 마이크로 에어펌프 개발)

  • Kim, K.S.;Choi, J.P.;Koo, B.S.;Jang, J.H.;Seo, Y.H.;Kim, B.H.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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    • 2008.05a
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    • pp.247-251
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    • 2008
  • This paper presents a micro air pump actuated by PZT actuator (synthetic jet actuator) for air supply for micro fuel cells. The synthetic jet actuators are usually created by a traditional PZT-driven actuator, which consists of a small cylindrical cavity, in/outlet channel and PZT diaphragms. To design the micro air pump, a numerical analysis has been conducted for flow characteristics with respect to various geometries. A prototype of the micro air pump, with a size of $mm{\times}mm{\times}mm$, was fabricated by PDMS replication process and was conducted performance test. To control the PZT actuator, we used the SP4423 micro chips that can be amplified input voltage to reduce the controller size and the power consumption. With a voltage of 3V at 100Hz, the air pump's pumping pressure is 600pa and its power consumption is only 0.1mW.

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