in this paper the design of a biped robot actuated with shape memory alloy (sma) springs with minimum degrees of freedom is presented. sma springs are a class of smart materials that are known for their high power to mass and volume ratios. it was shown that utilizing spring type of smas have many advantages as large deformation, smooth motion, silent and clean movement compared to ordinary typ...

One important challenge of microsystems design is the implementation of miniaturized actuation principles efficient at the micro-scale. Shape Memory Alloys have early on been considered as a potential solution to this problem as these materials offer attractive properties like a high-power to weight ratio, large deformation and the capability to be processed at the microscale. This paper review...

In this paper, we propose an original formalism inspired by Markov Decision Process in order to represent homogeneously actions and direct interactions between agents. Thanks to the introduction of individual rewards characterising the problem to be solved, this formalism is a first step towards the automatic computation of policies and use of available interactions. A simple problem of distrib...

The seismic performance of hybrid braces composed of steel and shape memory alloy (SMA) was investigated in this paper. Six types of hybrid braces were used, constituted by SMA content of 0, 20, 40, 60, 80, and 100%. A nonlinear dynamic analysis was performed under El Centro earthquake records, with the maximum acceleration of 0.6g and 0.9g. Our results showed that the seismic performance, i.e....

Résumé. Le principe d’un ordonnancement coopératif selon une modélisation multi-agents résulte du rapprochement des domaines de l’Ordonnancement et de l’Intelligence Artificielle Distribuée. Le travail que nous présentons dans ce papier a pour objectif l’étude de l’adéquation des métaheuristiques avancées dans un SMA dans le cadre de la résolution d’un problème d’optimisation bien défini qui es...

background: spinal muscular atrophy (sma) is the second most common lethal autosomal recessive disease. it is a neuromuscular disorder caused by degenerative of lower motor neurons and occasionally bulbar neurons leading to progressive limb paralysis and muscular atrophy. the smn1 gene is recognized as a sma causing gene while naip has been characterized as a modifying factor for the clinical s...