Tribological property investigation on a novel pneumatic actuator with integrated piezo actuators |
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Affiliation: | 1. Intraspec Technologies, 3 Avenue Didier Daurat, Toulouse, France;2. French Space Agency (CNES), 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse, France;3. CNRS UMR 5213 LAPLACE, Bat 3R3 118 Route de Narbonne 31062 Toulouse Cedex 9, France |
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Abstract: | Pneumatic piston–cylinder actuators are commonly used in industry for a variety of automation and robotics applications. In order to suppress leakage, these actuators comprise seal rings which unfortunately introduce friction and affect the positioning accuracy and output force. This article investigates vibrations of the seal generated by integrated piezo actuators to reduce friction force. For this, two piezoelectric stacks are integrated in the cylinder and used to excite vibration modes. This concept was studied in a compact cylinder pneumatic actuator with a bore diameter of 5 mm and a stroke of 10 mm. Dry friction measurement shows a 52% reduction from the original friction force at a driving frequency of 18.29 kHz and vibration amplitude of 0.05 μm. In the wet friction experiments, the friction force can be reduced by 54% from the original wet friction with vibrations at amplitude of 0.04 μm. |
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Keywords: | Friction Piezoelectric Vibrations Pneumatic actuator |
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