Precise actuation is a widely utilized technology in the realm of high-end equipment.
Piezoelectric actuators (PEAs) stand out due to their exceptional attributes, including high …

Nanopositioning is a key enabling technology for imaging, manipulation, measurement and
fabrication of matters at the nanoscale. Positioners driven by piezoelectric actuators are …

Robot manipulators are playing increasingly significant roles in scientific researches and
engineering applications in recent years. Using manipulators to save labors and increase …

Piezoelectric actuators (PEAs) have been widely used in nanotechnology due to their
characteristics of fast response, large mass ratio, and high stiffness. However, hysteresis …

The containment maneuvering of marine surface vehicles has two objectives. The first one is
to force the marine vehicles to follow a convex hull spanned by multiple parameterized …

This paper presents the design and testing of a novel continuous third-order integral
terminal sliding mode control (3-ITSMC) strategy dedicated to motion tracking control of a …

This article proposes a gated recurrent unit (GRU) neural network prediction and
compensation (NNC) strategy for precision multiaxis motion control systems with contouring …

Robust and precise motion tracking for micro-electro-mechanical systems in the presence of
inherent nonlinearity and external disturbance is of great importance in many applications …

Piezoelectric actuators (PEAs) are widely used in the nanopositioning applications due to
their high stiffness, fast response, and ultrahigh precision. However, PEAs inherently have …

Piezoelectric-actuated stick-slip device (PASSD) is a highly promising equipment that is
composed of one end-effector, one piezoelectric actuator (PEA) and one driving object …