Hysteresis is a natural phenomenon that widely exists in structural and mechanical systems.
The characteristics of structural hysteretic behaviors are complicated. Therefore, numerous …

Piezo-actuated stages have become more and more promising in nanopositioning
applications due to the excellent advantages of the fast response time, large mechanical …

The various mathematical models for hysteresis such as Preisach, Krasnosel'skii–Pokrovskii
(KP), Prandtl–Ishlinskii (PI), Maxwell-Slip, Bouc–Wen and Duhem are surveyed in terms of …

This paper studies the adaptive fully distributed consensus problem for a class of nonlinear
multi-agent systems (MASs) whose structures are heterogeneous, where agents with first …

Piezoelectric ceramic actuators have the advantages of fast response speed and high
positioning accuracy and are widely used in micro-machinery, aerospace, precision …

Hysteresis is an inherent characteristic of piezoelectric materials that can be determined by
not only the historical input but also the input signal frequency. Hysteresis severely …

Piezoelectric actuators find extensive application in delivering precision motion in the
micrometer to nanometer range. The advantages of a broader range of motion, rapid …

Differential equation-based hysteresis model is an efficient approach to predict the
hysteresis effect with less modeling parameters. Available differential equation-based …

This paper presents the optimal design, fabrication, and control of a novel compliant flexure-
based totally decoupled XY micropositioning stage driven by electromagnetic actuators. The …

Robot-assisted gastrointestinal endoscopic surgery requires flexible manipulators to
possess a compact dimension and stiffness tuning capability. Current stiffness-tunable …