Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Tno

Gerrit Witvoet

Teunis Cornelis Van Den Dool

William Edward Crowcombe

Theodorus Jacobus De Lange

Hajo Pieter Pereboom

The disclosure concerns an actuator module () for actuating a load (). The actuator module () comprises a deformable frame () and an actuator () connected to the deformable frame (). A time-varying force distribution (F) couples to an excited state (V) of an eigenmode (V) of the deformable frame (). The force distribution (F), as well as a stiffness distribution (K) and/or mass distribution (M) of the deformable frameare adapted such that static nodal points () of the deformable frameare coincided with mode nodal points (). The locations where the nodal points coincide can be used to connect the actuator module () to a base frame to reduce transfer of vibrations to the base frame and back which may otherwise undesirably influence the transfer function from actuator to load. The disclosure further concerns a method for designing and/or manufacturing the actuator module.

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Gerrit Witvoet