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 …

This topical review discusses recent development and trends on scanning micromirrors for
biomedical applications. This also includes a biomedical micro robot for precise …

This article provides an overview of the operational strategies adopted in microgrippers
design. The review covers microgrippers recently proposed in Literature, some of which …

A capacitive energy harvester based on in-plane rotary combs is proposed and studied. It is
capable of collecting kinetic energy from planar ambient vibrations for low frequency …

Although tissue and cell manipulation nowadays is a common task in biomedical analysis,
there are still many different ways to accomplish it, most of which are still not sufficiently …

This paper describes a novel electrostatically actuated microgripper with freeform
geometries designed by a genetic algorithm. This new semiautomated design methodology …

This paper reports a novel design for electrostatic microgrippers. The new structure utilizes
rotary comb actuators to solve the pull-in problem of microgrippers during large …

In this paper, a microsystem with prescribed functional capabilities is designed and
simulated. In particular, the development of a straight line path generator micro electro …

The demand of miniaturized, accurate and robust micro-tools for minimally invasive surgery
or in general for micro-manipulation, has grown tremendously in recent years. To meet this …