Estimation of the Young's modulus of metals based on the resonance frequency of a given structure has been reported previously. In some of these methods, an electromagnetic or piezoelectric actuator has been used to induce resonance in the structure [1]. The resulting response could be measured by different means, for example by a piezoelectric device. In most cases either the excitation and/or...

In this paper we address the problems of hysteresis and vibrations that limit the accuracy of piezoelectric positioners. It is widely known that the use of charge control significantly reduces hysteresis, thus enabling high-accuracy positioning during low speed operations. However, charge control is unable to reduce vibrations that limit the positioning bandwidth. Our main contribution is to ov...

Piezoelectric amplifier is a very important part of the piezoelectric actuator. It does not only require high positioning accuracy, but also high frequency response. This paper designs the error amplifier drive power consisting of high-voltage op amp and discrete components, consisting of an error-amplified circuit, a power amplifier circuit, a feedback network and a discharge circuit. A compen...

The piezo-actuated stages are composed of the piezo-electric actuator and the positioning mechanism. The positioning accuracy of the piezo-actuated stage is limited due to hysteretic nonlinearity of the PEA and friction behaviour of the positioning mechanism. To compensate this nonlinearity of piezoelectric actuator, a PI feedback control associated with feedforward compensating based on the hy...

This paper presents the design and analysis of a novel variable stiffness and variable resonance actuator based on a cellular arrangement of piezoelectric devices. The cellular muscle actuator design concept is presented followed by a general dynamic model for establishing the theoretical bounds on achievable resonant frequencies. A model that is specific to the proposed design is then formulat...

Sensors and actuators based on piezoelectric ceramics are finding an increasingly large variety of applications under a very wide range of environmental conditions and applied signals. Some actuator applications require the piezoelectric materials to support large mechanical loads and produce high strain output. In order to accomplish this requirement of higher strains, large electric fields mu...

Piezoelectric optical scanner is developed for multi-coordinate control of optical laser beam. Such type of optomicro-mechanical systems can be used for accurate angular or linear deflection of optical elements in various optomechanical and optoelectronic systems. The operating principle of these devices is based on piezoelectric effect and on conversion of high-frequency multi-dimensional mech...

This paper presents a method of modeling and subsequently characterizing stochastically controlled actuator arrays. The actuator arrays are built from cells, each containing six piezoelectric actuators and an amplification structure; however the results can be generalized to actuator arrays using solenoids, pneumatic cylinders, or any other fast acting linear actuators. The cells are controlled...

This paper investigates the seismic response control of a nonlinear benchmark building with a new re-centering variable friction device (RVFD). The RVFD consists of three parts: (i) a friction generation unit, (ii) a piezoelectric actuator, and (iii) shape memory alloy wires. The friction unit and piezoelectric actuator compose the first subcomponent of the hybrid device that is a variable fric...

The aim of this work is to optimise the vibration of the plate with the help of Adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) controller. The contribution of piezoelectric sensor and actuator layers on the mass and stiffness of the plate is considered. As the plate is square so we get total 64 squares. To validate the present code, frequency response has been compared with exact solution as wel...