Vehicular motion simulators have evolved to become an important contributor to major
industries, including defense, aerospace, and vehicle manufacturing. During the past few …

The rapid developments in precision applications have increased the demand for high
accuracy large range planar 3-DOF micropositioning mechanisms. However, the parasitic …

A new high precision ultra-compact decoupled XYZ θ motion stage based on flexure hinges
is designed and analyzed. The stage mainly consists of three components including serial …

This paper presents a mobile manipulation platform designed for autonomous depalletizing
tasks. The proposed solution integrates machine vision, control and mechanical …

This paper reports the design, modeling, and testing of a new single-layer center-rotation
platform driven by a single piezoelectric actuator. The platform avoids actuator redundancy …

A compliant parallel micromanipulator is a mechanism in which the moving platform is
connected to the base through a number of flexural components. Utilizing parallel …

Complex engineering problems can be modelled as optimisation problems. For instance,
optimising engines, materials, components, structure, aerodynamics, navigation, control …

With the wide application of intelligent manufacturing and the development of diversified
functions of industrial manipulator, the requirements for the control accuracy and stability of …

The article covers structural design and disturbance rejection control of a flexure-based
compliant piezoelectric nanopositioning stage. The stage is devised using four-bar …

This paper presents the application of Antlion optimization (ALO) tuning approach to obtain
the optimal parameters of PID controller to regulate the speed of DC motor. The ALO method …