Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0986319

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0986319

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

New drives and control techniques for high performance piezoelectric actuation. Piezoelectric actuators are made from a ceramic material that expands in response to an applied voltage. Although these actuators develop the greatest forces and most precise motion of any actuator, a number of performance limitations exist. This proposal aims to overcome these limitations and greatly increase the performance of piezoelectric actuators. Improved piezoelectric actuators will result in a parallel improvement of analytic and process machines throughout the scientific and industrial community. Examples include: improved atomic scale microscopes, finer tolerance steel rolling mills, more accurate micro-surgical tools, and automated manipulation of sperm and egg cells in IVF therapy.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 31-12-2014

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $580,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Electrical and Electronic Engineering | Robotics And Mechatronics | Systems Theory And Control | Electrical Engineering

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Industrial instrumentation | Scientific instrumentation | Instrumentation not elsewhere classified |

Other Keywords

Electrical Engineering | Electrical and Electronic Engineering | Industrial instrumentation | Instrumentation not elsewhere classified | Robotics And Mechatronics | Scientific instrumentation | Systems Theory And Control

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