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Design and analysis of piezoelectric actuator for micro gripper

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Piezoelectric actuator can be used for handling the miniature parts through a micro gripper for micro assembly where study of stable displacement and force characteristics with voltage are important. For obtaining these behaviors, electromechanical characterization of piezo actuator is required. In this paper, design and analysis of piezoelectric actuator for micro gripper is carried out by using combination of two piezo ceramic layers and one resistive layer between them where the voltage (±60 V) is supplied and controlled through a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller. Experimentally, it is found that the piezoelectric actuator produces maximum deflection up to 1.5 mm and generates maximum force up to 0.203 N. A piezoelectric actuator based micro gripper is developed for demonstrating the micro assembly.

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The authors are thankful to the Director, CSIR-CMERI, Durgapur, West Bengal, India for granting the permission to publish this paper. This work is the part of project entitled “Development of piezo actuator based micro manipulation system” under SINP on “Intelligent Devices and Smart Actuator” (Project No. ESC-203/10) for 12th five year plan which is financially supported by Council of Scientific Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India, New Delhi, India.

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    Ravi Kant Jain, Somajyoti Majumder & Bhaskar Ghosh

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Jain, R.K., Majumder, S. & Ghosh, B. Design and analysis of piezoelectric actuator for micro gripper. Int J Mech Mater Des 11, 253–276 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10999-014-9264-z

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