Mechanical Design of High-speed Nanopositioning Systems
Y. K. Yong, K. K. Leang
in Nanopositioning Technologies - Fundamentals and Applications, Chapter 3, pages 61-121, Springer, 2016.
Editors: Changhai Ru, Xinyu Liu, and Yu Sun
High-speed, ultra-high-precision nanopositioning: A signal transformation approach
A. Bazaei, Y. K. Yong, S. O. R. Moheimani and A. Sebastian
in Control Technologies for Emerging Micro and Nanoscale Systems
Series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Volume 413,
Pages 47-65, 2011.
Editors: E. Eleftheriou and S. O. R. Moheimani
An Ultra-thin Monolithic XY Nanopositioning Stage Constructed from a Single Sheet of Piezoelectric Material
A. J. Fleming, Y. K. Yong
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, In Press , 2017.
Note: Guaranteed collocated multimode control of an atomic force microscope cantilever using on-chip piezoelectric actuation and sensing
M. G. Ruppert, Y. K. Yong
Review of Scientific Instruments, 88 (086109), 2017.
A Comparison Of Scanning Methods And The Vertical Control Implications For Scanning Probe Microscopy
Y. R. Teo, Y. K. Yong, A. J. Fleming
Asian Journal of Control, Volume 19, No. 2, 1 - 5, 2017.
Multimodal cantilevers with novel piezoelectric layer topology for sensitivity enhancement
S. I. Moore, M. G. Ruppert, Y. K. Yong
Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, Volume 8, pp. 358 - 371, 2017.
A Novel State Transformation Approach to Tracking of Piecewise Linear Trajectories
A. Bazaei, Z. Cheng, Y. K. Yong, S. O. R. Moheimani
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2017.
Miniature Resonant Ambulatory Robot
S. A. Rios, A. J. Fleming, Y. K. Yong
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Volume 2, No. 1, 337 - 343, 2017.
Design and Characterization of Cantilevers for Multi-Frequency Atomic Force Microscopy
S. I. Moore, Y. K. Yong
Micro & Nano Letters, Volume 12, No. 5, 315 - 320, 2017.
A Improved Low-frequency Correction Technique for Piezoelectric Force Sensors in High-speed Nanopositioning Systems
Y. K. Yong, A. J. Fleming
Review of Scientific Instruments, 88 (046105), 1 - 3, 2017.
Combining Spiral Scanning and Internal Model Control for Sequential AFM Imaging at Video Rate
A. Bazaei, Y. K. Yong, S. O. R. Moheimani
IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics, Volume 22, No. 1, 371 - 380, 2017.
Preloading Piezoelectric Stack Actuator in High-speed Nanopositioning Systems
Y. K. Yong
Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering (Open access), Volume 2, 1 - 9, 2016.
High-speed Vertical Positioning Stage with Integrated Dual-sensor Arrangement
Y. K. Yong, A. J. Fleming
Sensors & Actuators: A. Physical, Volume 248, 184 - 192, 2016
High-Speed Single-Stage and Dual-Stage Vertical Positioners
Y. K. Yong, S. Wadikhaye, A. J. Fleming
A new preload mechanism for a high-speed piezoelectric stack nanopositioner
Y. K. Yong
Mechatronics, Volume 36, 159 - 166, 2016
Collocated Z-axis Control of a High-Speed Nanopositioner for Video-rate Atomic Force Microscopy
Y. K. Yong, and S. O. R. Moheimani
IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Volume 14, Number 2, 338 - 345, 2015
Piezoelectric Actuators with Integrated High Voltage Power Electronics
Y. K. Yong, and A. J. Fleming
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Volume 20, Number 2, 611 - 617, 2015
A Serial-Kinematic Nanopositioner for High-Speed AFM
S. Wadikhaye, Y. K. Yong, S. O. R. Moheimani
Review of Scientific Instruments, Volume 85, Number 10, 105104 (10pp), 2014
A Feedback Controlled MEMS Nanopositioner for On-Chip High-Speed AFM
A. Mohammadi, A. G. Fowler, Y. K. Yong, S. O. R. Moheimani
IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Volume 23, Number 3, 610 - 619, 2014
Control of a piezoelectrically actuated high-speed serial kinematic AFM nanopositioner
S. Wadikhaye, Y. K. Yong, S. O. R. Moheimani, B. Bhikkaji
Smart Materials and Structures, Volume 22, Number 2, 025030 (12pp), 2014
Video-rate Lissajous-scan Atomic Force Microscopy
Y. K. Yong, A. Bazaei, S. O. R. Moheimani
IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Volume 13, Number 1, 85 - 93, 2014
[AFM video - line rate 1 kHz],
[AFM video - line rate 2 kHz]
Improvement of Transient Response in Signal Transformation Approach by Proper Compensator Initialization
A. Bazaei, S. O. R. Moheimani, Y. K. Yong
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Volume 22, Number 2, 729 - 736, 2014
Design of an Inertially Counterbalanced Z-nanopositioner for High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy
Y. K. Yong and S. O. R. Moheimani
IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Volume 12, Number 2, 137 - 145, 2013
Diagonal Control Design for Atomic Force Microscope Piezoelectric Tube Nanopositioners
B. B. Bhikkaji, Y. K. Yong, I. Mahmood, and S. O. R. Moheimani
Review of Scientific Instruments, Volume 84, Number 2, 023705 (8pp), 2013
A Novel Piezoelectric Strain Sensor for Simultaneous Damping and Tracking Control of a High-speed Nanopositioner
Y. K. Yong, A. J. Fleming, S. O. R. Moheimani
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Volume 18, Number 3, 1113 - 1121, 2013
Design, Modeling and FPAA-based Control of a High-speed Atomic Force Microscope Nanopositioner
Y. K. Yong, B. Bhikkaji, S. O. R. Moheimani
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Volume 18, Number 3, 1060 - 1071, 2013
Design of a Compact Serial-Kinematic Scanner for High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy: An Analytical Approach
S. Wadikhaye, Y. K. Yong, S. O. R. Moheimani
Micro & Nano Letters, Volume 7, Number 4, 309-313, 2012
Invited Review Article: High-Speed Flexure-Guided Nanopositioning: Mechanical Design and Control Issues
Y. K. Yong, S. O. R. Moheimani, B. J. Kenton and K. K. Leang
Review of Scientific Instruments, Volume 83, Number 12, 121101 (22pp), 2012
High-speed Lissajous-scan atomic force microscopy: scan pattern planning and control design issues
A. Bazaei, Y. K. Yong, S. O. R. Moheimani
Review of Scientific Instruments, Volume 83, Number 6, 063701 (10pp), 2012
Tracking of Triangular References using Signal Transformation for Control of a Novel AFM Scanner
A. Bazaei, Y. K. Yong, S. O. R. Moheimani and A. Sebastian
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Volume 20, Number 2, 453-464, 2012
High-speed cycloid-scan atomic force microscopy
Y. K. Yong, S. O. R. Moheimani and Ian R. Petersen
Nanotechnology, Volume 21, 365503 (4pp), 2010
Atomic Force Microscopy with a 12-electrode Piezoelectric Tube Scanner
Y. K. Yong, B. Ahmed and S. O. R. Moheimani
Review of Scientific Instruments, Volume 81, 033701 (10pp), 2010
Reducing cross-coupling in a compliant XY nanopositioning stage for fast and accurate raster scanning
Y. K. Yong, K. Liu and S. O. R. Moheimani
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Volume 18, Number 5, 1172-1179, 2010
Kinetostatic modeling of 3-RRR compliant micro-motion stages with flexure hinges
Y. K. Yong and T.-F. Lu
Mechanism and Machine Theory, Volume 44, Number 6, 1156 - 1175, 2009
Design, identification and control of a flexure-based XY stage for fast nanoscale positioning
Y. K. Yong, S. Aphale and S. O. R. Moheimani
IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Volume 8, Number 1, 46-54, 2009
[The most cited paper in the journal - 2009 to 2013]
Simultaneous sensing and actuation with a piezoelectric tube scanner
S. O. R. Moheimani and Y. K. Yong
Review of Scientific Instruments, Volume 79, Number 7, 073702, 2008
Review of circular flexure hinge design equations and derivation of empirical formulations
Y. K. Yong, T.-F. Lu and D. C. Handley
Precision Engineering, Volume 32, Number 2, 63-70, 2008
[Top 2 most cited paper in the journal - 2008 to 2012]
The effect of the accuracies of flexure hinge equations on the output compliances of planar micro-motion stages
Y. K. Yong and T.-F. Lu
Mechanism and Machine Theory, Volume 43, Number 3, 347-363, 2008
A three-DOF compliant micromotion stage with flexure hinges
T.-F. Lu, D. C. Handley, Y. K. Yong and C. Eales
An International Journal of Industrial Robot, Volume 31, Number 4, 355-361, 2004
Design and Analysis of Piezoelectric Cantilevers with Enhanced Higher Eigenmodes for Atomic Force Microscopy
S. I. Moore, M. G. Ruppert, Y. K. Yong
IEEE Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics
July 2017, Munich, Germany. [Invited paper]
Piezoelectric Bimorph Actuator with Integrated Strain Sensing Electrodes
S. Z. Mansour, R. J. Seethaler, Y. R. Teo, Y. K. Yong, A. J. Fleming
IEEE Sensors
October 2017, Glasgow, Scotland.
Monolithic Piezoelectric Nanopositioning Stage using an Integrated Sensor
M. Omidbeike, Y. R. Teo, Y. K. Yong, A. J. Fleming
IFAC World Congress
July 2017, Toulouse, France.
Switched Self-Sensing Actuator for a MEMS Nanopositioner
S. I. Moore, Y. K. Yong, S. O. R. Moheimani
International Conference on Mechatronics
Feb 2017, Gippsland, Australia.
Design and Characterization of a Minature Monolithic Piezoelectric Hexapod Robot
S. A. Rios, A. J. Fleming, Y. K. Yong
IEEE Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics
July 2016, Banff, Canada.
Design, Modeling, and Characterization of an XY Nanopositioning Stage Constructed from a Single Sheet of Piezoelectric Material
A. J. Fleming, G. Berriman, Y. K. Yong
IEEE Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics
July 2016, Banff, Canada.
[Finalist of the Best Conference Paper Award]
High-Speed Single-Stage and Dual-Stage Mirror Scanners
Y. K. Yong, S. P. Wadikhaye, A. J. Fleming
International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales
June 2016, Paris, France. [Invited paper]
A Review of Scanning Methods and Control Implications for Scanning Probe Microscopy
Y. R. Teo, Y. K. Yong, A. J. Fleming
Proc. Australian Control Conference
July 2016, Boston, USA. [Invited paper]
Internal Model Control for High-Speed Spiral Scan AFM
A. Bazaei, Y. K. Yong, S.O.R. Moheimani
Australian Control Conference
Nov 2015, Gold Coast, Australia.
Design and Control of a MEMS Nanopositioner with Bulk Piezoresistive Sensors
M. Maroufi, Y.K. Yong and S.O.R. Moheimani
IEEE Multiconference on Systems and Control
Sept. 2015, Sydney, Australia.
Design of a two degree of freedom resonant miniature robotic leg
S. A. Rios, A. J. Fleming, Y. K. Yong
Proc. IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics
July 2015, Busan, Korea. [Invited paper]
[Finalist of the Best Conference Paper Award]
Control of Vertical axis of a Video-Speed AFM Nanopositioner
Y. K. Yong, S. O. R. Moheimani
Proc. American Control Conference
July 2015, Chicago, USA. [Invited paper]
Design and Characterisation of a Serial-Kinematic Nanopositioner for High-Speed AFM
S. Wadikhaye, Y. K. Yong, S. O. R. Moheimani
Proc. IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics
July 2014, Besancon, France.
Control of a High-Speed Nanopositioner for Lissajous-scan Video-rate AFM
Y. K. Yong, A. Bazaei, S. O. R. Moheimani
Proc. Australian Control Conference
Nov. 2013, Perth, Australia.
Thermal Analysis of Piezoelectric Benders with Laminated Power Electronics
A. J. Fleming and Y. K. Yong
Proc. IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics
July 2013, Wollongong, Australia. [Invited paper]
Nanopositioner Design using Tapered Flexures: An Analytical Study
S. Wadikhaye, Y. K. Yong and S. O. R. Moheimani
Proc. IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics
July 2013, Wollongong, Australia. [Invited paper]
Control of a MEMS Nanopositioner for Atomic Force Microscopy
Y. K. Yong, A. G. Fowler, A. Mohammadi and S. O. R. Moheimani
Proc. 6th IFAC Symposium on Mehatronic Systems
April 2013, Hangzhou, China. [Invited paper]
Design and Control of a Novel Non-Raster Scan Pattern for Fast Scanning Probe Microscopy
Y. K. Yong, A. Bazaei, S. O. R. Moheimani and F. Allgower
Proc. IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics
July 2012, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. [Invited paper]
Analog Implementation of a Damping and Tracking Controller for a High-Speed X-Y Nanopositioner
S. Wadikhaye, B. Bhikkaji, S. O. R. Moheimani and Y. K. Yong
Proc. American Control Conference
June 2012, Montreal, Canada. [Invited paper]
A Z-scanner Design for High-Speed Scanning Probe Microscopy
Y. K. Yong and S. O. Reza Moheimani
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation,
May 2012, St. Paul, MN, USA. [Invited paper]
A Novel Serial-Kinematic AFM Scanner: Design and Characterization
S. Wadikhaye, Y. K. Yong and S. O. Reza Moheimani
Proc. 37th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2011)
Nov. 2011, Melbourne, Australia.
Multivariable Control Designs for Piezoelectric Tubes
B. Bhikkaji, Y. K. Yong, I. A. Mahmood, S. O. R. Moheimani
Proc. IFAC World Congress
August-September 2011, Milan, Italy. [Invited paper]
Vibration and Tracking Control of a Flexure-Guided Nanopositioner Using a Piezoelectric Strain Sensor
Y. K. Yong, A. J. Fleming and S. O. R. Moheimani
The first International Conference on Manipulation, Manufacturing and Measurement on the Nanoscale
August 2011, Changchun, China. [Invited paper]
Analog Control of a High-speed Atomic Force Microscope Scanner
Y. K. Yong, B. Bhikkaji, S. O. R. Moheimani
Proc. IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics
July 2011, Budapest, Hungary.
A Non-raster Scan Method for High-speed SPM
Y. K. Yong, S. O. Reza Moheimani and Ian R. Petersen
Proc. IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics
July 2011, Budapest, Hungary.
Tracking Control of a Novel AFM Scanner using Signal Transformation Method
A. Bazaei, Y. K. Yong and S. O. Reza Moheimani
Proc. 5th IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic System
Sept 2010, Cambridge, MA, USA. [Invited paper]
A compact XYZ Scanner for Fast Atomic Force Microscopy in Constant Force Contact Mode
Y. K. Yong and S. O. Reza Moheimani
Proc. IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics
July 2010, Montreal, Canada.
A 12-electrode Piezoelectric Tube Scanner for Fast Atomic Force Microscopy
Y. K. Yong, B. Ahmed and S. O. Reza Moheimani
Proc. American Control Conference
June 2010, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. [Invited paper]
Vibration Control of a Novel Tube Scanner Using Piezoelectric Strain-Induced Voltage
Y. K. Yong and S. O. Reza Moheimani
Proc. IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics
July 2009, Singapore.
Comparison of Circular Flexure Hinge Design Equations and the Derivation of Empirical Stiffness Formulations
Y. K. Yong and T.-F. Lu
Proc. IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics
July 2009, Singapore.
A New Piezoelectric Tube Scanner for Simultaneous Sensing and Actuation
S. O. Reza Moheimani and Y. K. Yong
Proc. American Control Conference
June 2009, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. [Invited paper]
H-infinity Control for Reducing Cross-coupling in a Compliant XY Nanopositioning Stage
Y. K. Yong, K. Liu, S. O. R. Moheimani
Proc. International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies
Oct 2008, Ascona, Switzerland.
Design, Analysis and Control of a Fast Nanopositioning Stage
Y. K. Yong, S. Aphale and S. O. R. Moheimani
Proc. IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics
July 2008, Xi'an, China.
[Finalist of the Best Conference Paper Award]
Trajectory following with a three-DOF micro-motion stage
Y. K. Yong, T.-F. Lu, and J. L. Minase
Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA
Dec 2006, Auckland, New Zealand.
Kinematics of a 3RRR compliant micro-motion stage: Modelling accuracy improvement
Y. K. Yong, T.-F. Lu, D. C. Handley and P. Hu
International Symposium on Precision Mechanical Measurements (ISPMM)
Aug 2004, Beijing, China.
Position control of a 3DOF compliant micro-motion stage
T.-F. Lu, D. C. Handley and Y. K. Yong
The Eighth International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV
Dec 2004, Kunming, China.
Workspace investigation of a 3DOF compliant micro-motion stage
D. C. Handley, T.-F. Lu and Y. K. Yong
The Eighth International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV
Dec 2004, Kunming, China.
A simple and efficient dynamic modeling method for compliant micropositioning mechanisms using flexure hinges
D. C. Handley, T.-F. Lu, Y. K. Yong and W. J. Zhang
Proceedings of SPIE on Device and Process Technologies for MEMS, Microelectronics, and Photonics III
Dec. 2003, Perth, Australia.
Loop-closure theory in deriving linear and simple kinematic model for a 3 DOF parallel micromanipulator
Y. K. Yong, T.-F. Lu and D. C. Handley
Proceedings of SPIE on Device and Process Technologies for MEMS, Microelectronics, and Photonics III
Dec. 2003, Perth, Australia.