Smart Materials-Based Actuators at the Micro/Nano-Scale Characterization, Control, and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rakotondrabe, Micky (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Nanotechnology.; Control engineering.; Control.; Nanotechnology and Microengineering.

Smart Materials-Based Actuators at the Micro/Nano-Scale: Characterization, Control, and Applications gives a state of the art of emerging techniques to the characterization and control of actuators based on smart materials working at the micro/nano scale. The book aims to characterize some commonly...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Smart Materials as Essential Base for Actuators in Micro/Nanopositioning
• Characterization and Dynamics of Polymer Microactuators
• Design of Piezoelectric Actuators with Guaranteed Performances using the Performances Inclusion Theorem and Interval Tools
• Modeling and Robust H∞ Control of a Nonlinear and Oscillating 2-dof multimorph cantilevered piezoelectric actuator
• A Hybrid Control Approach to nanopositioning
• Interval modeling and robust feedback control of Piezoelectric-Based Microactuators
• Kalman Filtering and State-Feedback Control of a Nonliear Piezoelectric Cantilevered Actuator
• Intelligent Hysteresis Modeling and Control of Piezoelectric Ac-tuators
• Compensation of Rate-Dependent Hysteresis in a Piezomicropositioning Actuator
• Feedforward Control of Flexible and Nonlinear Piezoelectric Actuators
• Micro/Nanorobotic Manufacturing Thin-film NEMS Force Sensor
• Human Sperm Tracking, Analysis, and Manipulation.