The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer
in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all …

This paper presents a new method for the design of compensators for linear time-invariant
dual-input/single-output (DISO) systems in continuous time or discrete time. The new …

This paper discusses two mechatronic innovations in magnetic hard disk drive servo
systems, which may have to be deployed in the near future, in order to sustain the continuing …

A MEMS microactuator provides a low-cost and high-performance solution to realize high
track densities of HDD, because of the batch fabrication process and its clean mechanical …

A decoupled control design structure and discrete time pole placement design method are
proposed for MEMS-based dual-stage servo control design in magnetic disk drives. Dual …

Presents a method for the design of controllers for linear time-invariant dual-input/single-
output (DISO) systems in continuous-time or discrete-time. The new method reduces the …

Abstract Shape-memory-alloy (SMA) has attracted considerable attention in recent years as
a smart and efficient material, due to its unique properties. SMA microactuators became one …

A slider according to the present invention includes a slider body, a plurality of insulators,
and conductive traces. The slider body has a first side and edges defined substantially …

The PQ method is a technique for transforming the problem of designing controllers for dual-
input/single-output (DISO) systems to two single-input/single-output (SISO) design problems …

In this paper, a probabilistic design approach is presented to evaluate the reliability of
piezoelectric micro actuators. Based on the relationship between the lifetime, and …