Design, fabrication, and visual servo control of an xy parallel micromanipulator with piezo-actuation

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 710-719

  Xu, Qingsong ^a   Li, Yangmin ^a   Xi, Ning ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Flexure mechanism; Micromanipulation; Motion control; Parallel mechanism; Piezoelectric actuation; Visual servoing

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; FABRICATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HINGES; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); KINEMATICS; MECHANISMS; MICROMANIPULATORS; MOTION CONTROL; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); PIEZOELECTRICITY; PNEUMATIC CONTROL EQUIPMENT;

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; FLEXURE MECHANISM; MICRO MANIPULATION; PARALLEL MECHANISMS; PARALLEL MICROMANIPULATOR; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION METHOD (PSO); PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

VISUAL SERVOING;

EID: 70350017971     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2009.2021980     Document Type: Article

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