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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
Loughborough University
Analysing the reliability of actuation elements in series and parallel configurations for high-redundancy actuation
The research on High Redundancy Actuation (HRA) which is reported in this paper and other papers referred to therein led directly to a 12month RA Knowledge Transfer secondment (of Steffen) co-funded by BAE Systems to investigate applying the HRA ideas to aerospace actuators for an unmanned vehicle (Contact: Ian Harrington, BAE Systems, Warton, ian.harrington@baesystems.com). The work reported also inspired and was instrumental in the award of a £174k EPSRC/DfT project ‘REPOINT - Redundantly Engineered POINTs for Enhanced Reliability and Capacity of Railway Track Switching’, EP/I010823/1.