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Project Overviews

All of our current and several recently graduated research projects have been summarized into their own Research Project Overview informational sheets.  Outlining the project's goals, unmet need, benefit to industry, personnel, achievements and technology readiness level (TRL), these documents are a means to quickly and easily understanding the projects and the 4 Center testbeds.

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Project Overviews are available in PDF format and can be downloaded by clicking on the titles below.

PROJECTS

1A.1: Integrated Algorithms for Optimal Energy Use for Mobile Fluid Power Systems
1A.2: Multi Actuator Hydraulic Hybrid Machine Systems
1B.1: New Material Combinations and Surface Shapes for the Main Tribological Systems of Piston Machines
1B.2: Surface Effects on Motor Start-up Friction
1D: Micro- and Nano-Texturing for Low-Friction Fluid Power Systems
1E.1: Helical Ring On/Off Valve Based 4-quadrant Virtually Variable Displacement Pump/Motor
1E.2: High Speed On/Off Valves to Enable Efficient and Effective Fluid Power Systems
1E.3: High Efficiency, High Bandwidth, Actively Controlled Variable Displacement Pump/Motor
1E.4: Piston-by-Piston Control of Pumps and Motors using Mechanical Methods
1G.1: Tribofilm Structure and Chemistry in Hydraulic Motors

2A: Chemofluidic Hot Gas Vane Motor
2B.1: Free Piston Engine Compressor
2B.2: Miniature HCCI Free Piston Engine Compressor
2B.3: Free Piston Engine Hydraulic Pump
2C2: Advanced Strain Energy Accumulator
2D: Multi-Functional Fluid-Power Components Using Engineered Structures and Materials
2E: Model-Based Systems Engineering for Efficient Fluid Power
2F: MEMS Proportional Pneumatic Valve
2G: Fluid Powered Surgery and Rehabilitation via Compact, Integrated Systems

3A.1: Multimodal Human Machine Interfaces
3A.2: Human Machine Interaction via Passified Pneumatic and Chemo-Fluidic Control
3A.3: Human Performance Modeling and User Centered Design
3B.1 - Passive Noise Control in Fluid Power
3D.1: Leakage Reduction in Fluid Power Systems
3D.2: New Directions in Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication to solve Fluid Power Problems
3D.3: Improved Seal Design Based on Adaptive Materials

TEST BEDS

Test Bed 1:  High Efficiency Excavator
Test Bed 3:  Hydraulic Hybrid Passenger Vehicle
Test Bed 4:  Compact Rescue Robot
Test Bed 6:  Fluid Power Ankle-Foot Orthosis