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

In recent years micropump technology has gained considerable importance and has
become the highlighted area of research particularly for microfluidic applications. The …

Soft actuators have received intensive attention in the fields of soft robots, sensors,
intelligent control, artificial intelligence, and visual intelligence. By combination of tensile …

Piezoelectric inertia motors—also known as stick-slip motors or (smooth) impact drives—use
the inertia of a body to drive it in small steps by means of an uninterrupted friction contact. In …

This paper reviews the current status of soft robots in biomedical field. Soft robots are made
of materials that have comparable modulus of elasticity to that of biological systems. Several …

Flexure-based micropositioning systems with a large workspace are attractive for a variety of
precision engineering applications. In this paper, a new idea of multistage compound …

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

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 …

This paper presents a new approach for hysteresis identification and compensation of
piezoelectric actuators by resorting to an intelligent hysteresis model. In particular, a least …

Hysteresis nonlinearity degrades the positioning accuracy of a piezostage and requires a
suppression for precision micro-/nanopositioning applications. This paper proposes two new …