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

Various non-resonant piezoelectric actuators have been emerged in recent decades and
they have been applied successfully in many industrial fields, such as medical apparatuses …

Realization of micro-scale tracking accuracy and efficient utilization of the communication
channel is crucial to the wide application of piezoelectric-driven micropositioning stages …

This paper presents a modified Prandtl-Ishlinskii (PI)(MPI) model for the asymmetric
hysteresis description and compensation of piezoelectric actuators. Considering the fact that …

The piezoelectric-actuated compliant microgripper (PEACM) plays an essential role in the
application fields such as biomedical engineering, microelectronics, and optical …

Focusing on the piezoelectric positioning stage, this paper proposes an adaptive estimated
inverse output-feedback quantized control scheme. First, the quantized issue due to the of …

The design and control of a novel piezoelectric actuated compliant microgripper is studied in
this paper to achieve fast, precise, and robust micro gras** operations. First, the …

This paper presents a novel microgripper mechanism for micromanipulation and assembly.
The microgripper is driven by a piezoelectric actuator, and a three-stage flexure-based …

High-speed simultaneous position and contact force control is vital for microgrippers
dedicated to automated high-throughput microassembly tasks. This paper presents the …

This paper presents the precision motion control of a piezoelectric nanopositioning stage
using a new scheme of adaptive sliding mode control with uncertainty and disturbance …