The need for precision positioning applications has enormously influenced the research and
development towards the growth of precision actuators. Over the years, piezoelectric …

Flexure-based compliant mechanisms are becoming increasingly promising in precision
engineering, robotics, and other applications due to the excellent advantages of no friction …

Flexure hinges hold several advantages over classical rotation joints, including no friction
losses, no need for lubrication, no hysteresis, compactness, capacity to be utilized in small …

The development of piezoelectric actuation, starting from single-layer materials with the
converse piezoelectric effect, then progressing to multilayer piezo-stack actuators, amplified …

Precision engineering applications need for compliant micro positioning stages with a wide
travel range, high accuracy, and a small footprint. These advantages are provided by …

The piezoelectric-actuated compliant microgripper (PEACM) plays an essential role in the
application fields such as biomedical engineering, microelectronics, and optical …

This paper investigates a flexure-based compound bridge-type (CBT) displacement
amplifier for piezoelectric drives. In addition to the advantages of large amplification ratio …

The Prandtl-Ishlinskii (PI) model is widely utilized in hysteresis modeling and compensation
of piezoelectric actuators. For systems with rate-independent hysteresis, the inverse PI …

This paper reports the design, analysis and testing of a parallel two degree-of-freedom piezo-
actuated compliant stage for XY nanopositioning by introducing an innovative hybrid …

In order to further understand the characteristics of displacement amplification of bridge-type
mechanism, specific analysis is presented in this paper. The average ideal displacement …