Technologies > Supporting > Actuators

The principals of Mevicon Inc. have 20+ man-years of experience in the area of linear actuators and smart materials with skill sets covering the characterization, selection, design and control of linear actuators and dampers based on a wide range of transducer techniques including:

Smart Materials

• Piezoelectric
• Electrostrictive
• Magnetostrictive
• Shape memory alloy
• Electrorheological
• Magnetorheological
• Piezo-hydraulic

Electromagnetic and Hydraulic

• Hydraulic
• Electromagnetic
• Voice coil and reaction mass
• Motor / screw transducers

Mevicon personnel have designed, built, tested and delivered multiple hexapod type multi-degree of freedom motion control, pointing, and/or active vibration isolation systems. These hexapods are based on a variety of linear electromagnetic and piezoelectric actuators integrated together with feedback sensors, stand alone DSP controllers, firmware, signal conditioning, power amplifiers, power supplies, etc. Applications have ranged from the very precise (sub-micron) positioning of small optics payloads to systems capable of supporting 1000+ lb payloads.