Underactuate
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From under- + actuate.
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