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Dynamic analysis of an a-shaped piezo-actuated walking microrobot
, Article ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE), 12 November 2010 through 18 November 2010, Vancouver, BC ; Volume 10 , 2010 , Pages 161-170 ; 9780791844472 (ISBN) ; Vossoughi, G ; Sharif University of Technology
2010
Abstract
In this paper, a novel, A-shaped microrobot with nanometric resolution for precision positioning applications is addressed. The locomotion concept of the mechanism is founded on the "friction drive principle". To achieve the translational motion, a stack piezoelectric actuates the microrobot near its natural frequency. The dynamic modeling of the mechanism is based on the assumptions of linear behavior of piezo stack actuator and Coulomb friction model at contact points. The suitability of three simple, friction-based locomotion modes for implementation on the proposed device is presented. Influences of different friction coefficients on the behavior of the microrobot, with respect to...
Predicting average velocity of a non-linear sliding microrobot
, Article Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science ; Volume 225, Issue 9 , 2011 , Pages 2044-2051 ; 09544062 (ISSN) ; Vossoughi, G. R ; Sharif University of Technology
2011
Abstract
Among the locomotion concepts employed in the microrobotics, friction-based locomotion principles are of considerable importance. In this study, the dynamic modelling of friction drive microrobots subjected to the tangential and normal excitations is investigated, which have the same frequency, but are shifted in phase. The motion equation of the microrobot reveals a strongly non-linear differential equation with discontinuity for which the elastic force term is proportional to a signum function. Using the homotopy perturbation method, simple expressions are derived for predicting average velocity of the slider. The obtained results are in good agreement with those achieved from numerical...