Kinetostatic and dynamic modeling of flexure-based compliant mechanisms: a survey

M Ling, LL Howell, J Cao… - Applied …, 2020 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Flexure-based compliant mechanisms are becoming increasingly promising in precision
engineering, robotics, and other applications due to the excellent advantages of no friction …

Recent design and development of piezoelectric-actuated compliant microgrippers: A review

Z Lyu, Q Xu - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2021 - Elsevier
The piezoelectric-actuated compliant microgripper (PEACM) plays an essential role in the
application fields such as biomedical engineering, microelectronics, and optical …

Design and control of a novel asymmetrical piezoelectric actuated microgripper for micromanipulation

C Liang, F Wang, B Shi, Z Huo, K Zhou, Y Tian… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2018 - Elsevier
Microgripper is an important tool in high precision micromanipulation task, which directly
affects the quality and efficiency of micromanipulation. This paper presents the design and …

A review on the flexure-based displacement amplification mechanisms

F Chen, Q Zhang, Y Gao, W Dong - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multifarious flexure-based displacement amplifiers have been proposed and studied in the
past decades, showing importance in many industrial fields, such as bioengineering, optical …

Design of a new bio-inspired dual-axis compliant micromanipulator with millimeter strokes

Z Lyu, Q Xu - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes the concept design of a novel bio-inspired dual-axis compliant
micromanipulator with millimeter working strokes dedicated to fiber alignment. It subtly …

Design of a novel dual-axis micromanipulator with an asymmetric compliant structure

F Wang, B Shi, Y Tian, Z Huo, X Zhao… - … /ASME transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel piezoelectrically actuated dual-axis micromanipulator with an
asymmetric compliant structure. The mechanical design of the micromanipulator is first …

Design and development of a novel piezoelectrically actuated asymmetrical flexible microgripper

Z Lyu, Z Wu, Q Xu - Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents the design, modeling, optimization, simulation, and experimental study
of a new asymmetric flexible microgripper driven by a piezoelectric actuator. By comparing …

Nonlinear analysis and optimal design of a novel piezoelectric-driven compliant microgripper

W Chen, X Zhang, H Li, J Wei, S Fatikow - Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2017 - Elsevier
In a piezoelectric-driven microgripper, obtaining parallel grasping and enlarging grasping
stroke are important. This paper presents the nonlinear analysis and optimal design of a …

Recent advances in non-contact force sensors used for micro/nano manipulation

H Zang, X Zhang, B Zhu, S Fatikow - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2019 - Elsevier
Micro/nano manipulation for both mechanical and biological structures is currently a popular
research field. To protect small-scale structures and acquire their mechanical properties, a …

Design and development of a new piezoelectric-actuated biaxial compliant microgripper with long strokes

Z Lyu, Q Xu, L Zhu - IEEE Transactions on Automation Science …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a new piezoelectric-actuated biaxial compliant microgripper with long strokes
is proposed for automatically gripping and rolling tiny rigid objects. In order to improve the …