0 past simple and past participle of actuate
1 to make a machine work or be the reason a person acts in a certain way:
A detonator is actuated by heat, percussion, friction, or electricity.
The joint space of the manipulator (or configuration space) is defined as the space in which all the actuated joint variables are represented.
Both these motors are controlled by one electronic speed controller and are actuated in tandem.
In fact, each chain can have any number of actuated joints, providing that it is not kinematically redundant.
That is why nowadays most successfully developed humanoid prototypes are still actuated by motors.
This trial distinctly shows the performances of the pneumatic actuated system which is closest to the human leg.
The maximum distance between the passive joints on the moving platform and the ones on the actuated linear slides can be obtained.
Now we show how to determine the range of the motion of the five actuated linear slides.
For a discretely actuated or a discretized continuously actuated manipulator with a few modules, the workspace is sparse.