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

Various non-resonant piezoelectric actuators have been emerged in recent decades and
they have been applied successfully in many industrial fields, such as medical apparatuses …

Piezoelectric inertia motors—also known as stick-slip motors or (smooth) impact drives—use
the inertia of a body to drive it in small steps by means of an uninterrupted friction contact. In …

Micro/nano manipulators using piezoelectric actuators are extensively applied in precision
manipulation fields. In this article, a novel 2-DOF micro/nano manipulator with compact …

Piezoelectric-actuated stick-slip device (PASSD) is a highly promising equipment that is
composed of one end-effector, one piezoelectric actuator (PEA) and one driving object …

Self-sensing technique consists of using an actuator as a sensor at the same time. This is
possible for most actuators with physically reversible principle such as piezoelectric …

Micromanipulation robots are powerful tools to explore and reform the microscope world, but
it is difficult to integrate high precision, long stroke, strong carrying capability, and multi …

A resonant/off-resonant hybrid excitation of a piezoelectric stick–slip actuator is proposed in
this paper. It is accomplished by a resonant sinusoidal friction regulation wave (RSFR-wave) …

This paper presents a new approach to compensate the static hysteresis in smart material
based actuators that is modeled by the Prandtl-Ishlinskii approach. The proposed approach …

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the literature regarding the modeling and
control of piezoelectric inertia–friction actuators (PIFAs). Examples of PIFAs are impact drive …