Smart Materials-Based Actuators at the Micro/Nano-Scale : Characterization, Control, and Applications - Rakotondrabe, Micky; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
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.
Keywords: Control engineering; Nanotechnology; Control and Systems Theory; Nanotechnology and Microengineering; Nanotechnology