underactuate
underactuate verb: to make less easily actuated or responsive.
Verb
underactuate (third-person singular simple present underactuates, present participle underactuating, simple past and past participle underactuated)
- To make less easily actuated or responsive.
- The basic idea is to temporarily underactuate the robot system by releasing one of the actuators and to use some additional driving force to guide the parallel kinematic structure through the singularity of type 2.2010, Daniel Schütz, Friedrich M. Wahl, Robotic Systems for Handling and Assembly, →ISBN, page 101
- Figure 10 refers to a first design for underactuating the LARM finger mechanism by using a linear spring within the body of phalanx 2, [17].2015, Shaoping Bai, Marco Ceccarelli, Recent Advances in Mechanism Design for Robotics, →ISBN
Forms of underactuate
| third-person singular present | underactuates |
|---|---|
| present participle | underactuating |
| past participle | underactuated |
| past | underactuated |
Origin of underactuate
From under- + actuate.
Questions about underactuate
- What does underactuate mean?
- Underactuate means to make less easily actuated or responsive.
- What part of speech is underactuate?
- Underactuate is a verb.
- What is the past tense of underactuate?
- The past tense of underactuate is underactuated.
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