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 synthesis, modeling, control strategies, and fabrication methods of compliant grippers for micromanipulation and micromanipulator: A comprehensive review

HG Le, NL Ho, TP Dao - Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 2025 - Elsevier
In robotic and automation industry, micromanipulation and micromanipulator have
recognized significant advancements due to they are involved in handling of micro-sized …

A novel compliant piezoelectric actuated symmetric microgripper for the parasitic motion compensation

TK Das, B Shirinzadeh, A Al-Jodah, M Ghafarian… - … and Machine Theory, 2021 - Elsevier
With the advancement of technology, the demand for high precision micrograsping/releasing
task is increasing. This paper presents a compliant piezoelectric actuated microgripper for …

Design and analysis of a compliant microgripper with a large amplification ratio

Z Guo, H Ma, Q Li, Y Li, Z Liu, Q Song - Microsystem Technologies, 2023 - Springer
This paper presents the design and analysis of a novel piezoelectric-actuated compliant
microgripper that mainly consists of a three-stage amplifier and a pair of parallelogram …

An XYZ micromanipulator for precise positioning applications

M Ghafarian, B Shirinzadeh, A Al-Jodah… - Journal of Micro-Bio …, 2020 - Springer
A three-degrees-of-freedom (3-DOF) monolithic compliant parallel micromanipulator with
bridge-type displacement amplifier is presented in this paper. The research aims are to …

Design and testing of a new piezoelectric-actuated symmetric compliant microgripper

Z Lyu, Q Xu - Actuators, 2022 - mdpi.com
Precise and stable operations in micromanipulation and microassembly require a high-
performance microgripper. To improve the predominant static and dynamic characteristics, a …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic mapping of synthesis methods for compliant grippers using PRISMA

EH Llanos, B Corves, M Huesing, A Saxena - Mechanism and Machine …, 2025 - Elsevier
Systematic design, development and applications of Compliant Grippers (CGs) have surged
in the past decade. The works are diverse but information is dispersed. This paper provides …

Design and optimization of a decoupled serial constant force microgripper for force sensitive objects manipulation

Y Shan, B Ding, J Zhong, Y Li - Robotica, 2023 - cambridge.org
To address coupling motion issues and realize large constant force range of microgrippers,
we present a serial two-degree-of-freedom compliant constant force microgripper (CCFMG) …

A novel flexural lamina emergent spatial joint

H Zhang, X Zhang, B Zhu - Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2019 - Elsevier
Origami and lamina emergent compliant hinges offer favorable potential applications for
large-stroke compliant mechanisms. However, due to coupling problems and nonlinear …

Experimental System Identification and Disturbance Observer-based Control for a Monolithic Precision Positioning System

M Ghafarian, B Shirinzadeh, A Al-Jodah… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
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 …