This paper presents a comprehensive review of mechanical design and synthesis methods
for piezo-actuated compliant micro-positioning stages, which play an important role in areas …

Micromanipulation is a hot topic due to its enabling role in various research fields. In order to
perform a high precision operation at a small scale, compliant mechanisms have been …

Active wearable body brace embodiments provide select-able conformation control of the
interface between the trunk of a human subject and the brace, which conformation may be …

The development of a high-performance three-axis serial-kinematic nanopositioning stage is
presented. The stage is designed for high-bandwidth applications that include video-rate …

This paper presents the design analysis fabrication and testing of a high-bandwidth piezo-
driven parallel kinematic nanopositioning XY stage. The monolithic stage design has two …

This paper reports the design and development processes of a totally decoupled flexure-
based XYZ parallel-kinematics micropositioning stage with piezoelectric actuation. The …

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 …

To utilize beam flexures in constraint-based flexure mechanism design, it is important to
develop qualitative and quantitative understanding of their constraint characteristics in terms …

Achieving large motion range (> 1 mm) along with nanometric motion quality (< 10 nm)
simultaneously has been a key challenge in nanopositioning systems. Practical limitations …

In the atomic force microscope (AFM) scanning system, the piezoscanner is significant in
realizing high-performance tasks. To cater to this demand, a novel compliant two-degrees-of …