This article provides an overview of the operational strategies adopted in microgrippers
design. The review covers microgrippers recently proposed in Literature, some of which …

Considering microbotics, microforce sensing, their working environment, and their control
architecture together, microrobotic force-sensing systems provide the potential to outperform …

Nanorobotic systems using piezoelectric stick-slip actuators are widely used in
nanotechnology. They operate mainly in a coarse-positioning mode and a fine-positioning …

This article presents the conceptual design of a novel reconfigurable piezoelectric-driven
microgripper to obtain both excellent static and dynamic performance for complex …

The existing symmetrical microgrippers have larger output displacements compared with the
asymmetrical counterparts. However, the two jaws of a symmetrical microgripper are less …

Purpose In this paper, it is presented system identification and design of robust force
controllers for an electrostatic microgripper grabbing a microparticle. Methods Firstly, it is …

Force sensing and control are of paramount importance in robotic micromanipulation. A
contact force regulator capable of accurately applying mechanical stimuli to a live …

Aiming to address the problem of the low amplification ratio of traditional microgrippers, a
two-stage microgripper based on the principle of combined amplification was designed with …

The microgripper based on the principle of lever amplification is easy to realize; however,
the theoretical amplification factor is limited by the space size and the structure is not …

Nano-robotic systems based on Piezoelectric StickSlip (PSS) actuators have become
increasingly popular in research and industry for semi-automated and automated tasks at …