Additive manufacturing technology has attracted unprecedented attention in industry
because it provides infinite possibilities for rapid prototyping and enormous potential and …

Precision positioning systems with large working stroke (millimeter or more) and micro/nano-
scale positioning resolution are widely required in both scientific research and industries …

Artificial muscles are capable of generating actuation in microsystems with outstanding
compliance. Recent years have witnessed a growing academic interest in artificial muscles …

Multi-degree-of-freedom (multi-DOF) piezoelectric motion stage is an important part of
modern manufacturing industry. In order to perform high precision outputs in a large travel …

With the development of micro-electromechanical systems, high precision actuators with
high resolution, fast speed, large load capacity are increasingly required. Thanks to the …

In this paper, a novel bidirectional complementary-type inchworm actuator is developed with
the help of two piezo-stacks (PZTs), where a simpler structure is obtained by employing the …

A U-shaped stepping piezoelectric actuator featuring low motion coupling is proposed,
fabricated and tested. The actuator contains four similar piezoelectric actuation units (PAUs) …

One major obstacle to the development of a piezoelectrically-driven actuator with a large
motion range is the requirement to provide a high load capacity and a reliable self-locking …

The piezoelectric inchworm actuator with high-positioning accuracy and large output force is
a potential device to implant microelectrode in the invasive brain–computer interface (BCI) …

This paper proposes a novel friction-actuated two degree-of-freedom positioning stage with
large motion stroke, high resolution and low coupling rate. A parallelly decoupled driving …