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    Design and Optimization of a New Compliant Rotary Positioning Stage with Constant Output Torque

    This paper presents the design, optimization, and experimental testing of a new compliant rotary positioning stage with constant torque output. The constant-torque rotary stage is devised based on flexure-base...

    Piyu Wang, Sijie Yang, Qingsong Xu in International Journal of Precision Enginee… (2018)

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    Design and testing of a new 3-DOF spatial flexure parallel micropositioning stage

    This paper presents the design and testing of a novel 3-DOF parallel flexure micropositioning stage for micro-scale operations. The proposed modular design can obtain the merit of high interchangeability durin...

    **aozhi Zhang, Qingsong Xu in International Journal of Precision Enginee… (2018)

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    Digital Sliding-Mode Control of High-Order Systems

    This chapter presents the design and implementation of an input–output-based digital sliding-mode control (IODSMC) algorithm to suppress the nonlinearity and disturbance in piezoelectric micro-/nano-positionin...

    Qingsong Xu, Kok Kiong Tan in Advanced Control of Piezoelectric Micro-/N… (2016)

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    Model-Reference Adaptive Control with Perturbation Estimation

    This chapter presents the design and testing of a model-reference adaptive control (MRAC) scheme to compensate for the hysteresis effect of a class of piezo-actuated systems, which possess a second-order nomin...

    Qingsong Xu, Kok Kiong Tan in Advanced Control of Piezoelectric Micro-/N… (2016)

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    Position/Force Switching Control of a Miniature Gripper

    This chapter presents the design and implementation of combined position and force control of a piezoelectrically actuated compliant gripper.

    Qingsong Xu, Kok Kiong Tan in Advanced Control of Piezoelectric Micro-/N… (2016)

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    Feedforward Control Based on Inverse Hysteresis Models

    This chapter presents the rate-dependent compensation of a piezoelectric nanopositioning stage using the feedforward control based on an inverse hysteresis model. Three different controllers are realized and...

    Qingsong Xu, Kok Kiong Tan in Advanced Control of Piezoelectric Micro-/N… (2016)

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    Model Predictive Discrete-Time Sliding-Mode Control

    This chapter presents a scheme of model predictive discrete-time sliding mode control (MPDTSMC) with proportional-integral (PI) sliding function and state observer for the motion tracking control of a nanoposi...

    Qingsong Xu, Kok Kiong Tan in Advanced Control of Piezoelectric Micro-/N… (2016)

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    Digital Sliding-Mode Control of Second-Order Systems

    This chapter presents the precision motion control of a piezoelectric bimorph actuator without using a hysteresis model and a state observer.

    Qingsong Xu, Kok Kiong Tan in Advanced Control of Piezoelectric Micro-/N… (2016)

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    Digital Sliding-Mode Prediction Control

    This chapter presents the design and verification of a digital sliding-mode prediction control (DSMPC) scheme for precise position control of piezoelectric micro-/nanopositioning systems.

    Qingsong Xu, Kok Kiong Tan in Advanced Control of Piezoelectric Micro-/N… (2016)

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    Adaptive Impedance Control of Piezoelectric Microgripper

    Delicate interaction control is a crucial issue for automated microsystems dedicated to micromanipulation of microobjects. This chapter presents a framework of digital sliding mode generalized impedance contro...

    Qingsong Xu, Kok Kiong Tan in Advanced Control of Piezoelectric Micro-/N… (2016)

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    Introduction

    This chapter provides an introduction to the piezoelectric micro-/nano-positioning system and the concerned control problems.

    Qingsong Xu, Kok Kiong Tan in Advanced Control of Piezoelectric Micro-/N… (2016)

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    Feedforward Control Without Modeling Inverse Hysteresis

    This chapter presents an approach of hysteresis identification and compensation of piezoelectric actuators by resorting to an intelligent hysteresis model. In particular, a least squares support vector machine...

    Qingsong Xu, Kok Kiong Tan in Advanced Control of Piezoelectric Micro-/N… (2016)

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    Model Predictive Output Integral Discrete-Time Sliding-Mode Control

    This chapter presents a control scheme termed model predictive output integral discrete-time sliding-mode control (MPOIDSMC) to achieve a precise positioning for a piezoelectric actuation stage.

    Qingsong Xu, Kok Kiong Tan in Advanced Control of Piezoelectric Micro-/N… (2016)

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    Design of a flexure-based auto-focusing device for a microscope

    This paper presents the design, fabrication, and testing procedures of a compliant auto-focusing device for a microscope. To obtain a long focusing range, a new flexure positioning mechanism is devised based o...

    Yilin Liu, Qingsong Xu in International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing (2015)