Flexure-based compliant mechanisms are becoming increasingly promising in precision
engineering, robotics, and other applications due to the excellent advantages of no friction …

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

A trapezoid-type stick–slip piezoelectric linear actuator using a right circular flexure hinge
mechanism was proposed, designed, fabricated, and tested with the aim of accomplishing …

Robotic micromanipulation is a relatively young field. However, after three decades of
development and evolution, the fundamental physics; techniques for sensing, actuation, and …

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 …

Piezo-actuated, flexure hinge-based compliant mechanisms have been frequently used in
precision engineering in the last few decades. There have been a considerable number of …

A piezoelectric actuator based on parasitic motion principle is proposed and tested. The
piezoelectric actuator is explored to simultaneously realize coarse (long stroke) and fine …

This paper reports the design, analysis and testing of a parallel two degree-of-freedom piezo-
actuated compliant stage for XY nanopositioning by introducing an innovative hybrid …

This paper presents a novel actuator-internal two degree-of-freedom (2-DOF) micro/nano
positioning stage actuated by piezoelectric (PZT) actuators, which can be used as a fine …

In order to further understand the characteristics of displacement amplification of bridge-type
mechanism, specific analysis is presented in this paper. The average ideal displacement …