We are pleased to launch the new Mechatronics Specialty Section of Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering led by Chief Editors A/Prof. Andrew Fleming (University of Newcastle) and Prof. Saman Halgamuge (University of Melbourne). The section seeks to publish research on mechatronic technologies with a high societal impact including applications in fabrication, automotive, autonomous systems, imaging, control, and [...]
Join us in Boston at ACC 2016 to collaborate with other researchers and engineers on the design and control of precision mechatronic systems including nanopositioning, microscopy, motion control, and lithography. The contributed papers will include advances from both academic and industrial researchers. In 2015, industrial involvement included: ASML, Agilent, IBM, NT-MDT, Nikon Corporation, Irmato Industrial [...]
An International Research Fellowship is available to visit the Precision Mechatronics lab in 2016. The fellowship will include all travel and accommodation costs for a period between four weeks and six months. The due date is July 29, 2015. Please contact Andrew Fleming for more details.
Congratulations to Yik Teo who has been selected as a finalist for the best student paper award at the IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control which will be held in Sydney during September, 2015. Yik will present his work on a new high-performance repetitive controller that was experimentally validated on a nanopositioning system. [...]
Congratulations to Shannon Rios who was a finalist for the best student paper award at the IEEE Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics conference which was held in Busan, Korea during July, 2015. Shannon's work described the design and analysis of a miniature piezoelectric leg for robotic insects.
Invited Sessions on Precision Mechatronics at the American Control Conference, Chicago, Illinois, July 1-3, 2015 The sessions will focus on collaboration between groups working on nanopositioning, microscopy, motion control; and the wider control community. The contributed papers will include advances from both academic and industrial researchers. In 2014, Industrial involvement included: Nikon Corporation, Mori Seiki [...]
Dr. Fleming and Dr. Kam Leang have published the first text on nanopositioning systems that provides a complete description of the design, modeling, and control.
The attached Matlab file is an implementatation of the frequency domain subspace system identification algorithm described in "Subspace Based Multivariable System Identification from Frequency Response Data", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 41, No.7, July 1996. This tool allows SISO or MIMO models to be obtained from frequency response data. It is available free of [...]
A miniature high voltage power amplifier is laminated onto a piezoelectric bimorph bender using thermally conductive adhesive. The resulting actuator requires only 3.3V to operate which eliminates the need for an external high-voltage amplifier and wiring harness.
Advances in Micro and Nano-scale Positioning Systems at IEEE Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Besançon, France, July 8-11, 2014 Despite the success of scanning probe and micro-scale systems, limitations still exist in terms of precision, operating speed, and reliability. Two invited sessions are proposed that will focus on novel mechanism design, advanced modeling techniques and control-related problems [...]
