Development and force/position control of a new hybrid thermo-piezoelectric microgripper dedicated to micromanipulation tasks

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 824-834

  Rakotondrabe, Micky ^a   Ivan, Ioan Alexandru ^b  

^a FEMTO ST INSTITUTE   (France)

^b VALAHIA UNIVERSITY OF TARGOVISTE   (Romania)

Author keywords

Control; force and position; microassembly; microgripper; micromanipulation; modeling; pick and place; piezoelectric actuator; thermal actuator

Indexed keywords

FORCE AND POSITION; MICRO ASSEMBLY; MICRO MANIPULATION; MICROGRIPPER; PICK-AND-PLACE; THERMAL ACTUATOR;

CONTROL; CONTROL THEORY; GRIPPERS; MICROMANIPULATORS; MODELS; PIEZOELECTRICITY;

PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 80053619908     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2011.2157683     Document Type: Article

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