Micro-structured functional surfaces have achieved widespread applications in various
advanced scientific, technological, industrial, and engineered fields due to their excellent …

The knowledge of cutting forces in various machining processes is of great importance not
only for the designer-manufacturer of machine tools, but also for the user, since the cutting …

Single-crystal silicon carbide (SiC) is one of the most attractive materials for electronics and
optics but extremely difficult to cut owing to its hard and brittle properties. While in previous …

Forced low frequency vibration assisted drilling (forced LFVAD) is an important machining
method, in which the prediction of drilling thrust force and torque is necessary to optimize the …

By serially combining two piezoelectrically actuated compliant stages, a dual-stage fast tool
servo (FTS) is developed to greatly enhance the trajectory tracking performance of …

This article reports on the mechanism design, dimension optimization, closed-loop control,
and practical application of a piezoelectrically actuated fast tool servo (FTS) for the diamond …

Tool servo diamond turning is a promising method for generating complex-shaped optics.
Considering the dynamic oscillation of the tool, servo dynamics are essential for the …

A high-performance triaxial fast tool servo (FTS) with the hybrid electromagnetic–
piezoelectric actuation and the hybrid parallel–serial-kinematic structure is reported …

Ultra-precision diamond cutting (UPDC) is a promising method for fabricating precision parts
of titanium alloys. Although energy consumption models have been proposed for …

Excellent tracking accuracy and remarkable disturbance rejection capability are quite
important for fast tool servo (FTS) operations in ultraprecision manufacturing. For these …