Mingyang Xie & Shengdong Yu 
Autonomous Positioning of Piezoactuated Mechanism for Biological Cell Puncture 

Autonomous Positioning of Piezoactuated Mechanism for Biological Cell Puncture gives a systematic and almost self-contained description of the many facets of advanced design, optimization, modeling, system identification, and advanced control techniques for positioning of the cell puncture mechanism with a piezoelectric actuator in micro/nanorobotics systems.To achieve biomedical applications, reliability design, modeling, and precision control are essential for developing engineering systems. With the advances in mechanical design, dynamic modeling, system identification, and control techniques, it is possible to expand the advancements in reliability design, precision control, and quick actuation of micro/nanomanipulation systems to the robot’s applications at the micro- and nanoscales, especially for biomedical applications.This book unifies existing and emerging techniques concerning advanced design, modeling, and advanced control methodologies in micropuncture of biological cells using piezoelectric actuators with their practical biomedical applications.The book is an essential resource for researchers within robotics, mechatronics, biomedical engineering, and automatic control society, including both academic and industrial parts.KEY FEATURES* Provides a series of latest results in, including but not limited to, design, modeling, and control of micro/nanomanipulation systems utilizing piezoelectric actuators* Gives recent advances of theory, technological aspects, and applications of advanced modeling, control, and actuation methodologies in cell engineering applications* Presents simulation and experimental results to reflect the micro/nano manipulation practice and validate the performances of the developed design, analysis, and synthesis approaches