Vishnu Aishwaryan Subra Mani
Robots in the latest era use linear actuators as their primary power source. Our current way of powering the joints is a combination of rotary actuators with transmission units, which increases the mass of the system.
Solenoid's have been in existence for quite a long time, yet its architecture make's it unsuitable to be used as an actuator.
The Objective of this work was to test out an idea to identify if dual poles/windings could make them perform any better.
The above and the video to the left shows the experimental setup where the device is controlled using an L298n at two different speeds. The setup was easy to control and the amount of heat produced was relatively less to a traditional solenoid
The video to the right shows how it could be controlled in terms of position.
The video to the left shows a spring like behavior which could be experimented more to learn more about it.
These are some early stage testings of the prototype and further experiments could depict its potential.