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Title: Compliance and control characteristics of an additive manufactured-flexure stage

Abstract

This paper presents a compliance and positioning control characteristics of additive manufactured-nanopositioning system consisted of the flexure mechanism and voice coil motor (VCM). The double compound notch type flexure stage was designed to utilize the elastic deformation of two symmetrical four-bar mechanisms to provide a millimeter-level working range. Additive manufacturing (AM) process, stereolithography, was used to fabricate the flexure stage. The AM stage was inspected by using 3D X-ray computerized tomography scanner: air-voids and shape irregularity. The compliance, open-loop resonance peak, and damping ratio of the AM stage were measured 0.317 mm/N, 80 Hz, and 0.19, respectively. The AM stage was proportional-integral-derivative positioning feedback-controlled and the capacitive type sensor was used to measure the displacement. As a result, the AM flexure mechanism was successfully 25 nm positioning controlled within 500 μm range. The resonance peak was found approximately at 280 Hz in closed-loop. This research showed that the AM flexure mechanism and the VCM can provide millimeter range with high precision and can be a good alternative to an expensive metal-based flexure mechanism and piezoelectric transducer.

Authors:
;  [1]
  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina, 300 Main St., Columbia, South Carolina 29208 (United States)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22392478
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Review of Scientific Instruments
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 86; Journal Issue: 4; Other Information: (c) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0034-6748
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; ACCURACY; ADDITIVES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROL; DAMPING; DEFORMATION; DESIGN; MANUFACTURING; METALS; PEAKS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; POSITIONING; RESONANCE; SENSORS; TRANSDUCERS; X RADIATION

Citation Formats

Lee, ChaBum, and Tarbutton, Joshua A. Compliance and control characteristics of an additive manufactured-flexure stage. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4918982.
Lee, ChaBum, & Tarbutton, Joshua A. Compliance and control characteristics of an additive manufactured-flexure stage. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4918982
Lee, ChaBum, and Tarbutton, Joshua A. 2015. "Compliance and control characteristics of an additive manufactured-flexure stage". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4918982.
@article{osti_22392478,
title = {Compliance and control characteristics of an additive manufactured-flexure stage},
author = {Lee, ChaBum and Tarbutton, Joshua A.},
abstractNote = {This paper presents a compliance and positioning control characteristics of additive manufactured-nanopositioning system consisted of the flexure mechanism and voice coil motor (VCM). The double compound notch type flexure stage was designed to utilize the elastic deformation of two symmetrical four-bar mechanisms to provide a millimeter-level working range. Additive manufacturing (AM) process, stereolithography, was used to fabricate the flexure stage. The AM stage was inspected by using 3D X-ray computerized tomography scanner: air-voids and shape irregularity. The compliance, open-loop resonance peak, and damping ratio of the AM stage were measured 0.317 mm/N, 80 Hz, and 0.19, respectively. The AM stage was proportional-integral-derivative positioning feedback-controlled and the capacitive type sensor was used to measure the displacement. As a result, the AM flexure mechanism was successfully 25 nm positioning controlled within 500 μm range. The resonance peak was found approximately at 280 Hz in closed-loop. This research showed that the AM flexure mechanism and the VCM can provide millimeter range with high precision and can be a good alternative to an expensive metal-based flexure mechanism and piezoelectric transducer.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4918982},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22392478}, journal = {Review of Scientific Instruments},
issn = {0034-6748},
number = 4,
volume = 86,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}