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Design, Analysis, and Development of a Piezoelectric Microsyringe Pump
This chapter presents the design, analysis, and testing of a microsyringe pump for delivering the liquid inside a tiny tube precisely. To facilitate precision actuation of the microsyringe, a uniaxial micromot...
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Visual Servo Control with Force Regulation for Microinjection
In this chapter, a microinjection system has been developed by integrating dual cameras and microforce . Experimental study on microinjection of zebrafish with visual servo and force has been conducted ...
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Introduction
This chapter provides an introduction of biological micromanipulation using various types of micromachines. A brief survey of both tethered and untethered micromachines with different working principles is giv...
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Design, Fabrication, and Testing of a Microforce Sensor for Microinjection
In this chapter, a novel one-degree-of-freedom (1-DOF) microforce sensor is designed by adopting macrofiber composite (MFC) and polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) films. The films function as fixed-guided beams an...
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Design, Fabrication, and Testing of a Constant-Force Microinjector
This chapter presents the design and testing of a flexure-based with constant force output dedicated to biological cell micromanipulation. The microinjector offers a constant force without adopting a force c...
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Design and Development of a Flexure-Based Compact Constant-Force Robotic Gripper
This chapter presents the design of a novel flexure-based compliant gripper with constant grip** force and compact structure size for cell micromanipulation applications. The gripper removes the use of force...
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Review of Microinjection Systems
Cell microinjection plays an important role in genetics, transgenics, molecular biology, drug discovery, reproductive studies, and other biomedical fields. Robotic cell microinjection has been popularly applie...
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Design and Control of a Piezoelectric-Driven Microinjector
This chapter presents the design, fabrication, and testing of a piezo-driven cell microinjection system with force sensing and control. By using piezoresistive sensors for measuring the cell penetration force ...
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Design, Modeling, and Control of a Constant-Force Microgripper
This chapter proposes the design, modeling, and control of a compliant gripper with a passive-type constant-force mechanism. The constant force output is enabled by combining a positive-stiffness mechanism and...
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Design and Implementation of a Force-Sensing MEMS Microgripper
This chapter presents the design, simulation, fabrication, and testing processes of a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) microgripper, which integrates an electrostatic actuator and a capacitive force senso...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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Parallel-Kinematic Nanopositioning Stages Based on Roberts Mechanism
This chapter presents the design of parallel-kinematic nanopositioning stages with large workspace and low crosstalk. Based on compliant Roberts mechanism, the design of multi-axis parallel compliant stage is ...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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.