DocumentCode
138218
Title
Microactuator modeling to develop a new template for the Braille
Author
Soulimane, Sofiane ; Brixi Nigassa, Med El Amine ; Bouazza, B. ; Camon, Henri
Author_Institution
Biomed. Eng. & Electron. Dept., Tlemcen Univ., Tlemcen, Algeria
fYear
2014
fDate
7-9 April 2014
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
The results of this work are contributions to the modeling and design a original microactuator system that allows braille reading. Here, we propose to use one matrix composed by six actuators to form the 63 Braille combinations. To define the geometry of the matrix we used the physiological limits of perception.. In this work, we use a finite element model with the Comsol software for modelling this type of miniature actuator for integration into a test device. In order to lower the operating voltage of such systems, we focus our study on microsystem based piezoelectric material. We demonstrated that micro-actuators can exhibit non uniform compression. This deformation depends on thin films thickness and design of membrane arms.
Keywords
finite element analysis; microactuators; piezoelectric materials; Braille reading; Comsol software; finite element model; membrane arms design; microactuator modeling; microactuator system; microsystem based piezoelectric material; nonuniform compression; thin films thickness; Abstracts; Actuators; Gold; Haptic interfaces; Integrated optics; Optical sensors; Transducers;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Thermal, mechanical and multi-physics simulation and experiments in microelectronics and microsystems (eurosime), 2014 15th international conference on
Conference_Location
Ghent
Print_ISBN
978-1-4799-4791-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/EuroSimE.2014.6813866
Filename
6813866
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