A Novel Type of Mechanical Power Transmission Array for Switching Densely-Arrayed Actuator Systems

This paper proposes a novel type mechanical transmission system for driving arrayed elements. The main advantage of this system is that it is able to operate individually arrayed elements with high-power. It was fabricated by MEMS technologies, and was confirmed that we are able to individually drive the arrayed elements by selectively driving tulip-shaped electrostatic clutch devices that transmit large power coming from a single power source. The transmitted stroke was 20 µ m for this experiment.