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Smart Materials-Based Actuators at the Micro/Nano-Scale

Characterization, Control, and Applications

  • Provides both theoretical and experimental results
  • Contains complete information from characterization, modeling, identification, control to final applications for researchers and engineers that would like to model, characterize, control and apply their own micro/nano-systems
  • Discusses applications such as microrobotics and their control, design and fabrication of microsystems, microassembly and its automation, nanorobotics and their characterization
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Introduction: Smart Materials as Essential Base for Actuators in Micro/Nanopositioning

    • Micky Rakotondrabe, Mohammad Al Janaideh, Alex Bienaimé, Qingsong Xu
    Pages 1-14
  3. Characterization and Dynamics of Polymer Microactuators

    • Beatriz Cristina López-Walle, Edgar Reyes-Melo
    Pages 15-39
  4. A Hybrid Control Approach to Nanopositioning

    • Tomas Tuma, Abu Sebastian, John Lygeros, Angeliki Pantazi
    Pages 89-120
  5. Interval Modeling and Robust Feedback Control of Piezoelectric-Based Microactuators

    • Sofiane Khadraoui, Micky Rakotondrabe, Philippe Lutz
    Pages 121-147
  6. Kalman Filtering and State-Feedback Control of a Nonlinear Piezoelectric Cantilevered Actuator

    • Micky Rakotondrabe, Juan-Antonio Escareno, Didace Habineza, Sergio Lescano
    Pages 149-169
  7. Micro/Nanorobotic Manufacturing of Thin-Film NEMS Force Sensor

    • Gilgueng Hwang, Hideki Hashimoto
    Pages 229-249
  8. Human Sperm Tracking, Analysis, and Manipulation

    • Jun Liu, Clement Leung, Zhe Lu, Yu Sun
    Pages 251-264
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 265-271

About this book

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 used structures based on piezoelectric and electroactive polymeric actuators and also focuses on various and emerging techniques employed to control them. This book also includes two of the most emerging topics and applications: nanorobotics and cells micro/nano-manipulation.

Editors and Affiliations

  • at Besancon, Automatic &, University of Franche-Comté, Besancon, France

    Micky Rakotondrabe

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Smart Materials-Based Actuators at the Micro/Nano-Scale

  • Book Subtitle: Characterization, Control, and Applications

  • Editors: Micky Rakotondrabe

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6684-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-6683-3

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4560-3

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-6684-0

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 271

  • Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 123 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Control and Systems Theory, Nanotechnology and Microengineering, Nanotechnology

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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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