The sense of touch, also known as tactile perception, enables enhanced ambient
environment awareness for modern robots. Fe-Ga alloys have demonstrated great potential …

The output power generated by a vibrational magnetostrictive energy harvester depends on
several parameters, some of them linked to the mechanical source, as vibration amplitude …

Trust-region methods have yielded state-of-the-art results in policy search. A common
approach is to use KL-divergence to bound the region of trust resulting in a natural gradient …

This article investigates the modeling and design of vibration energy harvesters that utilize
iron-gallium (Galfenol) as a magnetoelastic transducer. Galfenol unimorphs are of particular …

A nonlinear, two-dimensional plate model is presented that describes the dynamic response
of composite laminate structures with embedded magnetostrictive materials. The model …

The performance of magnetostrictive materials, especially those with high initial magnetic
permeability and associated low magnetic reluctance, is sensitive to not just the amount of …

This paper utilizes a thermodynamic approach based on Helmholtz free energy density and
a finite element (FE) model to analyze a galfenol-based magnetostrictive energy harvesting …

Vibration energy harvesting is a new alternative to lithium battery power for low-power
devices, attempting to recover wasted or lost vibration energy to generate electricity …

The Villari effect, through which mechanical energy is transferred to magnetic energy in
magnetostrictive materials can be utilized in energy harvester and damper designs …

Magnetostrictive materials exhibit coupling between magnetic and mechanical energies.
This bidirectional energy exchange can be employed for actuation, sensing, and energy …