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

Multifarious flexure-based displacement amplifiers have been proposed and studied in the
past decades, showing importance in many industrial fields, such as bioengineering, optical …

In robotic and automation industry, micromanipulation and micromanipulator have
recognized significant advancements due to they are involved in handling of micro-sized …

Piezoelectrically actuated compliant mechanisms are key techniques in designing
micro/nano manipulators, precision positioning stages/grippers and many other mechanical …

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 …

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 …

For large aperture telescopes, active control of the secondary mirror is essential for
correction of the aberrations. In this paper, an isotropic Stewart platform is developed for the …

In the last decades, a wide range of methods have been proposed for the analysis of
compliant mechanisms. In this investigation, the theory of the ellipse of elasticity is tailored to …

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 …

This paper presents a piezo-driven microgripper which can realize parallel grasping in a
large displacement range (more than 140 μ m). The proposed microgripper is derived by a …