Invited review article: High-speed flexure-guided nanopositioning: Mechanical design and control issues

YK Yong, SOR Moheimani, BJ Kenton… - Review of scientific …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Recent interest in high-speed scanning probe microscopy for high-throughput applications
including video-rate atomic force microscopy and probe-based nanofabrication has sparked …

Design, Identification, and Control of a Flexure-Based XY Stage for Fast Nanoscale Positioning

YK Yong, SS Aphale… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The design, identification, and control of a novel, flexure-based, piezoelectric stack-actuated
XY nanopositioning stage are presented in this paper. The main goal of the design is to …

Design and computational optimization of a decoupled 2-DOF monolithic mechanism

Y Qin, B Shirinzadeh, Y Tian, D Zhang… - … ASmE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the mechanical design, computational optimization, and
experimentation of a decoupled 2-DOF monolithic mechanism. In the mechanical design …

Design, modeling, and FPAA-based control of a high-speed atomic force microscope nanopositioner

YK Yong, B Bhikkaji… - Ieee/asme transactions …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An XYZ nanopositioner is designed for fast the atomic force microscopy. The first resonant
modes of the device are measured at 8.8, 8.9, and 48.4 kHz along the X-, Y-, and Z-axes …

Kinetostatic modeling of 3-RRR compliant micro-motion stages with flexure hinges

YK Yong, TF Lu - Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper presents the derivation of the kinetostatic model of a flexure-based 3-RRR
compliant micro-motion stage. The kinetostatic model has closed-form equations and flexure …

A new pseudo-rigid-body model approach for modeling the quasi-static response of planar flexure-hinge mechanisms

S Šalinić, A Nikolić - Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper a new pseudo-rigid-body model (PRBM) of flexure hinges used in planar
flexure-hinge mechanisms with small deformations is presented. Unlike the 1-DOF freedom …

Design and computational optimization of a flexure-based XY positioning platform using FEA-based response surface methodology

SC Huang, TP Dao - International Journal of Precision Engineering and …, 2016 - Springer
This paper presents the mechanical design and computational optimization for a flexure-
based XY positioning platform that is capable of performing planar translational motion with …

A novel voice coil motor-driven compliant micropositioning stage based on flexure mechanism

J Shang, Y Tian, Z Li, F Wang, K Cai - Review of Scientific Instruments, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents a 2-degrees of freedom flexure-based micropositioning stage with a
flexible decoupling mechanism. The stage is composed of an upper planar stage and four …

Reducing cross-coupling in a compliant XY nanopositioner for fast and accurate raster scanning

YK Yong, K Liu, SOR Moheimani - IEEE Transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A compliant XY nanopositioner is presented in this brief. The device is designed to have a
very low cross-coupling between the X-and Y-axis. Despite this, during high-speed raster …

Design, analysis and testing of a parallel-kinematic high-bandwidth XY nanopositioning stage

CX Li, GY Gu, MJ Yang, LM Zhu - Review of Scientific instruments, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents the design, analysis, and testing of a parallel-kinematic high-bandwidth
XY nanopositioning stage driven by piezoelectric stack actuators. The stage is designed with …