A Piezo-Driven 3D Positioning Mechanism with Single-Stage Structure.

Neuro-Sliding Mode Control of Piezo-Positioning Mechanism

In this work, a Neuro-Sliding mode controller (NSMC) for piezo-positioning mechanism (PEA) was designed. This controller takes into account parameter uncertainties and unknown external disturbances. The LuGre model is used to establish the mathematical model of the system including the mechanical motion dynamics, the hysteresis friction, the load disturbance and parameter uncertainties. Using t...

A piezo‐driven flapping wing mechanism for micro air vehicles

2006). Flapping wing MAVs (FWMAVs) are a class of new conceptual MAVs that take design cues from flying insects in order to achieve a small size (<3–5 cm), high maneuverability and super remote ability (Yan et al. 2015). A FWMAV is expected to work in a variety of confined spaces such as urban canyons, caves, indoors, and jungles that large flying robots can’t be serviceable. To achieve such ta...

A Robust Motion Tracking Control of Piezo-Positioning Mechanism with Hysteresis Estimation

Piezoelectric actuators are the most suited actuation devices for high precision motion operations in the positioning tasks include miro/nano-positioning [1]. These actuators have unlimited motion resolution and posses some advantages such as ignorable friction, noiseless, zero backlash and easy maintenance, in comparison with the conventional actuated systems which are based on the sliding or ...

Dynamic modeling of 3-DOF pyramidal-shaped piezo-driven mechanism

Structure-based membrane dome mechanism for Piezo mechanosensitivity

Mechanosensitive ion channels convert external mechanical stimuli into electrochemical signals for critical processes including touch sensation, balance, and cardiovascular regulation. The best understood mechanosensitive channel, MscL, opens a wide pore, which accounts for mechanosensitive gating due to in-plane area expansion. Eukaryotic Piezo channels have a narrow pore and therefore must ca...