This article demonstrates that an actuator can be used as a single platform for measurement, control and estimation by designing a chain of estimators and performing simple offline experiments. Making use of the fact that reflected torque from the dynamical system consists of all the system dynamics beside all external disturbances. The reflected torque waves are estimated using the actuator pa...

We demonstrate the microscopic equivalent of a step-stress rheological measurement. An optical torque is applied to a birefringent wax microdisk embedded in gelatin, a highly entangled viscoelastic biopolymer, using circularly polarized laser tweezers. By increasing the laser power and measuring the angular displacement of the disk, we explore the microscopic rheological response of presheared ...

OBJECTIVE High variability in delivering the target torque is reported for friction-style mechanical torque limiting devices (F-S MTLDs). The effect of aging (number of use) on the accuracy of these devices is not clear. The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of aging on the accuracy (±10% of the target torque) of F-S MTLDs. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fifteen new F-S MTLDs and their ap...

The use of high-precision measuring instruments for determining the torque electric motors in such areas as medicine, motor transport, shipping, aviation requires improvement metrological characteristics instruments. This, turn, an accurate assessment their error. Of particular importance is measurement power at high-speed installations, where some cases conventional systems are either unsuitab...

Double-stator switched reluctance machines have higher torque density and lower vibration and acoustic noise level in comparison with conventional switched reluctance machines. Static characteristics of a 8/6 Double-stator switched reluctance machine have already calculated using finite element method. However, no measurement has been presented for the static torque of the machine. This paper p...

The optical torque wrench is a laser trapping technique that expands the capability of standard optical tweezers to torque manipulation and measurement, using the laser linear polarization to orient tailored microscopic birefringent particles. The ability to measure torque of the order of kBT (∼4 pN nm) is especially important in the study of biophysical systems at the molecular and cellular le...