The book aims at empowering readers with a clear understanding of multi-stage mechanism, different microactuators' performances, their limitations to control system performance and problems encountered in control system design and techniques for solving these problems and dealing with these limitations. This book is designed for academic researchers and engineering practitioners in systems and control, especially those engaged in the area of control in mechanical systems with microactuators and multi-stage actuations.
Provides specific applications of multi-stage mechanical actuation systems
Discusses issues and solutions in control system design for multi-stage mechanical actuation systems
Discusses various types of microactuators and their control methods in multi-stage mechanism
Includes real-world examples for demonstrating underlying concepts and design techniques
Explores what a multi-stage mechanical systems is, for what purpose the multi-stage system is applied, how it works and how to control it for high performance
Multi-Stage Actuation Systems and Control
Mechanical Actuation Systems. High-precision Positioning Control of Dual-stage Actuation Systems. Control of Thermal Microactuator Based Dual-stage Actuation Systems. Modeling and Control of Three-stage Actuation Systems. Dual-stage System Control Considering Secondary Actuator Stroke Limitation. Saturation Control for Microactuators in Dual-stage Actuation Systems. Time Delay and Sampling Rate Effect on Control Performance of Dual-stage Actuation Systems. PZT Hysteresis Modeling and Compensation. Seeking Control of Dual-stage Actuation Systems with Trajectory Optimization. High-Frequency Vibration Control Using PZT Active Damping. Self-Sensing Actuation of Dual-stage Systems. Modeling and Control of A MEMS Micro X-Y stage Media Platform. Conclusions.