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 …

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

This paper reports the design and development processes of a totally decoupled flexure-
based XYZ parallel-kinematics micropositioning stage with piezoelectric actuation. The …

Achieving fast and agile swimming still remains extremely challenging for a self-propelled
robotic fish due to the constraint of actuator's propulsion capability. In this article, we report …

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

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the literature regarding actuator systems
which are based on the principle that combines the friction and inertia effect, named friction …

Mechanically amplifying micro-stroke of actuators such as piezoelectric stacks through
compliant mechanisms is an effective solution for use in micro/nano manipulation, precision …

To increase the effective actuation stroke of piezoelectric stack actuators and giant
magnetostrictive actuators, displacement amplifiers are usually employed to provide …

This paper proposes a new compliant mechanism for the stroke amplification of piezoelectric
actuators. Compared with the existing ones, this compliant stroke amplification mechanism …