Recent interest in high-speed scanning probe microscopy for high-throughput applications
including video-rate atomic force microscopy and probe-based nanofabrication has sparked …

Research on shunted piezoelectric transducers, performed mainly over the past decade, has
generated new opportunities for control of vibration and dam** in flexible structures. This …

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 …

This paper investigates the robustness of positive-position feedback control of flexible
structures with colocated force actuators and position sensors. In particular, the theory of …

Piezoelectric tube scanners have emerged as the most widely used nanopositioning
technology in modern scanning probe microscopes. Despite their impressive properties …

This paper introduces integral resonant control, IRC, a simple, robust and well-performing
technique for vibration control in smart structures with collocated sensors and actuators. By …

Piezoelectric stack-actuated parallel-kinematic nanopositioning platforms are widely used in
nanopositioning applications. These platforms have a dominant first resonant mode at …

With the recent interest in environmental issues, noise and vibration problems have been a
subject of intense interest for many years in modern industrial societies. Various control …

An atomic force microscope (AFM) is an extremely versatile investigative tool in the field of
nanotechnology, the performance of which is significantly influenced by its conventional zig …

Negative-imaginary systems have important engineering applications, for example, in lightly
damped flexible structures with collocated position sensors and force actuators. This paper …