Thrust Area 2: Compactness
By decreasing size and weight, fluid power systems can migrate from heavy equipment to human scale assistive devices, spawning whole new industries including: underwater exploration, rescue operations, remotely manipulating nuclear materials, bomb disposal, medical and rehabilitation applications and wearable or compact tools for home and industrial use. Improved compactness will enable fluid power to perform tasks that are not presently possible.
Research projects
2A Chemo-fluidic hydraulic actuators.
2B Free-piston engine compressor.
2C Compact energy storage.
2D High pressure, light weight components using engineered materials.
2E Component integration for fluid power systems.
2F Dynamically scalable fluid power systems.
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