• 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