The need for precision positioning applications has enormously influenced the research and
development towards the growth of precision actuators. Over the years, piezoelectric …

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

This paper presents the design and development of a novel flexure parallel-kinematics
precision positioning stage with a centimeter range and compact dimension. The stage …

In this paper, a general skeleton on modeling, controller design, and applications of the
piezoelectric positioning stages is presented. Toward this framework, a general model is first …

A growing trend in the utilization of compliant micro-motion stages, which offer exceptional
precision and repeatability in positioning. These stages enable the creation of dual-range …

A piezoelectric platform driven by a bionic quadruped piezoelectric actuator is developed. It
uses the operating principle of combining bionic walking and swinging actuation modes to …

This paper presents a novel real-time inverse hysteresis compensation method for
piezoelectric actuators exhibiting asymmetric hysteresis effect. The proposed method …

A planar piezoelectric actuator with large travel range is presented in this paper. The
actuator is composed of four uniform piezoelectric transducers, and each transducer can …

A novel piezo-actuated compliant mechanism is developed to obtain triaxial translational
motions with decoupled features for nanocutting. Analytical modeling of the working …

The limited degrees of freedom (DOFs) of servo motions is an inherent deficiency in
conventional, fast-tool-servo-(FTS)-assisted, diamond-turning, highly blocking applications …