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A. Selected Journal Publications

  1. Q. Xu, "Design and Development of a Flexure-Based Dual-Stage Nanopositioning System with Minimum Interference Behavior," IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, in press, 2012.
  2. Q. Xu, "New Flexure Parallel-Kinematic Micropositioning System with Large Workspace," IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 478-491, 2012.
  3. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Micro-/Nanopositioning Using Model Predictive Output Integral Discrete Sliding Mode Control," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 1161-1170, 2012.
  4. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Model Predictive Discrete-Time Sliding Mode Control of a Nanopositioning Piezostage Without Modeling Hysteresis," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2011.2157345, 2012.
  5. P.-K. Wong, Q. Xu, C.-M. Vong, and H.-C. Wong, "Rate-Dependent Hysteresis Modeling and Control of a Piezostage Using Online Support Vector Machine and Relevance Vector Machine," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 1988-2001, 2012.
  6. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Design and Robust Repetitive Control of a New Parallel-Kinematic XY Piezostage for Micro/Nanomanipulation," IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2011.2160074, 2012.
  7. Q. Xu and P.-K. Wong, "Hysteresis Modeling and Compensation of a Piezostage Using Least Squares Support Vector Machines," Mechatronics, vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 1239-1251, 2011.
  8. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "A Novel Piezoactuated XY Stage with Parallel, Decoupled and Stacked Flexure Structure for Micro-/Nanopositioning," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 58, no. 8, pp. 3601-3615, 2011.
  9. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "A Totally Decoupled Piezo-Driven XYZ Flexure Parallel Micropositioning Stage for Micro/Nanomanipulation," IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 265-279, 2011.
  10. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Analytical Modeling, Optimization and Testing of a Compound Bridge-Type Compliant Displacement Amplifier," Mechanism and Machine Theory, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 183-200, 2011.
  11. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Tracking performance characterization and improvement of a piezoactuated micropositioning system based on an empirical index," Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, vol. 26, no. 6,  pp. 744-752, 2010.
  12. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Dahl model-based hysteresis compensation and precise positioning control of an XY parallel micromanipulator with piezoelectric actuation," Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Transactions of the ASME, vol. 132, no. 4, 041011, 2010.
  13. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Adaptive sliding mode control with perturbation estimation and PID sliding surface for motion tracking of a piezo-driven micromanipulator," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 798-810, 2010.
  14. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Development and assessment of a novel decoupled XY parallel micropositioning platform," IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 125-135, 2010.
  15. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Modeling and performance evaluation of a flexure-based XY parallel micromanipulator," Mechanism and Machine Theory, vol. 44, no. 12, pp. 2127-2152, 2009.
  16. Q. Xu, Y. Li and N. Xi, "Design, fabrication, and visual servo control of an XY parallel micromanipulator with piezo-actuation," IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 710-719, 2009.
  17. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Design and optimization of an XYZ parallel micromanipulator with flexure hinges," Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, vol. 55, no. 4-5, pp. 377-402, 2009.
  18. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Design and analysis of a totally decoupled flexure-based XY parallel micromanipulator," IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 645-657, 2009.
  19. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Dynamic modeling and robust control of a 3-PRC translational parallel kinematic machine," Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 630-640, 2009.
  20. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Error analysis and optimal design of a class of translational parallel kinematic machine using particle swarm optimization," Robotica, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 67-78, 2009.
  21. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "An investigation on mobility and stiffness of a 3-DOF translational parallel manipulator via screw theory," Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 402-414, 2008.
  22. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Stiffness analysis for a 3-PUU parallel kinematic machine," Mechanism and Machine Theory, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 186-200, 2008.
  23. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Kinematic analysis of a 3-PRS parallel manipulator," Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 395-408, 2007.
  24. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Design and development of a medical parallel robot for cardiopulmonary resuscitation," IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 265-273, 2007.
  25. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Design and analysis of a new singularity-free three-prismatic-revolute-cylindrical translational parallel manipulator," Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part C, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, vol. 221, no. 5, pp. 565-576, 2007.
  26. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Kinematic analysis and design of a new 3-DOF translational parallel manipulator," Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME, vol. 128, no. 4, pp. 729-737, 2006.
  27. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "A novel design and analysis of a 2-DOF compliant parallel micromanipulator for nanomanipulation," IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 248- 254, 2006.
  28. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "A novel design of a 3-PRC translational compliant parallel micromanipulator for nanomanipulation," Robotica, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 527-528, July 2006.
  29. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "A new approach to the architecture optimization of a general 3-PUU translational parallel manipulator," Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 59-72, 2006.
  30. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Kinematics and inverse dynamics analysis for a general 3-PRS spatial parallel mechanism," Robotica, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 219-229, 2005.

B. Selected Book Chapters

  1. Q. Xu, "Intelligent Hysteresis Modeling and Control of Piezoelectric Actuator," in Characterization, Control and Applications of Smart Materials based Actuators Working at the Micro/Nanoscale, M. Rakotondrabe, Ed., Springer, 2012.
  2. Q. Xu, P.-K. Wong, and Y. Li, "Rate-Dependent Hysteresis Modeling and Compensation Using Least Squares Support Vector Machines," in Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2011, D. Liu, H. Zhang, M. Polycarpou, C. Alippi, and H. He, Eds., Springer, 2011, ISBN: 978-3-642-21089-1, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6676, Part II, pp. 85-93.
  3. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Fuzzy sliding mode control with perturbation estimation for a piezoactuated micromanipulator," in Advances in Neural Network Research and Applications, Z. Zeng and J. Wang, Eds., Springer, 2010, ISBN: 978-3-642-12989-6 (Print) 978-3-642-12990-2 (Online), Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 67, pp. 153-160.
  4. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "CMAC-based PID control of an XY parallel micropositioning stage," in Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2009, W. Yu, H. He, and N. Zhang, Eds., Springer, 2009, ISBN: 978-3- 642-01509-0, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5552, Part II, pp. 1040-1049.
  5. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Design, analysis and applications of a class of new 3-DOF translational parallel manipulators," Parallel Manipulators, New Developments, J.-H. Ryu, Ed., I-Tech Education and Publishing, Vienna, Austria, April 2008, ISBN: 978-3-902613-20-2, Chapter 24, pp. 457-482.
  6. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "A mobile parallel manipulator: Conceptual design and modeling," Autonomous Robots Research Advances, W. Yang, Ed., Nova Science Publishers, New York, USA, April 2008, ISBN: 978-1-60456-185-2, Chapter 10, pp. 295-312.
  7. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "A 3-PRS parallel manipulator control based on neural network," in Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2007, D. Liu, S. Fei, Z.-G. Hou, H. Zhang, and C. Sun, Eds., Springer, 2007, ISBN: 978-3-540-72382-0, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4491, Part I, pp. 757-766.

C. Selected Conference Publications

  1. Q. Xu, "Mechanism Design and Analysis of a Novel 2-DOF Compliant Modular Microgripper," in Proceedings of 7th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2012), Singapore, July 18-20, 2012.
  2. Q. Xu, "A New Method of Force Estimation in Piezoelectric Cantilever-Based Microgripper," in Proceedings of 2012 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2012), KaoHsiung, Taiwan, July 11-14, 2012.
  3. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Precise Positioning Control of A Micropositioning System with Nonminimum-Phase Plant," in Proceedings of 2011 International Conference on Systems Science and Engineering (ICSSE2011), Macao, China, June 8-10, pp. 449-454, 2011.
  4. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Modeling and Control of Rate-Dependent Hysteresis for a Piezo-Driven Micropositioning Stage," in Proceedings of 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2011), Shanghai, China, May 9-13, 2011, pp. 1670-1675.
  5. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Hysteresis Modeling and Tracking Control of a Piezostage for Biological Cell Manipulation," in Proceedings of 2010 IEEE International Conference on Nano/Molecular Medicine and Engineering (IEEE-NANOMED 2010), Hong Kong, China, December 5-9, 2010, pp. 44-49.
  6. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "System identification and vibration control of a piezo-driven flexure-based XYZ parallel micropositioning stage," in Proceedings of ASME 2010 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE 2010), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, November 12-18, 2010, paper no. IMECE2010-40893.
  7. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Optimal design and fabrication of a piezoactuated flexure XYZ parallel micropositioning stage," in Proceedings of 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2010), Taipei, Taiwan, October 18-22, 2010.
  8. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Precise tracking control of a piezoactuated micropositioning stage based on modified Prandtl-Ishlinskii hysteresis model," in Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2010), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August 21-24, 2010.
  9. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Sliding mode control of a piezo-driven micropositioning system using extended kalman filter," in Proceedings of 2010 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics (ICAL 2010), Hong Kong/Macao, August 16-20, 2010.
  10. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Novel design of a totally decoupled flexure-based XYZ parallel micropositioning stage," in Proceedings of 2010 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM2010), Montreal, Canada, July 6-9, 2010, pp. 866-871.
  11. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Hysteresis compensation of a piezoactuated XY micropositioning system based on disturbance observer," in Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA 2010), Jinan, China, July 6-9, 2010, pp. 2014-2019.
  12. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Design of a new decoupled XYZ compliant parallel micropositioning stage with compact structure," in Proceedings of 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2009), Guilin, Guangxi, China, December 18-22, 2009, pp. 901-906.
  13. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Hysteresis modeling and compensation for an XY micropositioning stage with model reference adaptive control," in Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC'09), Shanghai, China, December 16-18, 2009, pp. 5580-5585.
  14. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Global sliding mode-based tracking control of a piezo-driven XY micropositioning stage with unmodeled hysteresis," in Proceedings of 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2009), St. Louis, MO, USA, October 11-15, 2009, pp. 755-760.
  15. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Dynamics modeling and sliding mode control of an XY micropositioning stage," in Proceedings of the 9th International IFAC Symposium on Robot Control (SYROCO'09), Gifu, Japan, September 9-12, 2009, pp. 781-786.
  16. Q. Xu and Y. Li, , "Radial basis function neural network control of an XY micropositioning stage without exact dynamic model," in Proceedings of 2009 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM2009), Singapore, July 14-17, 2009, pp. 498-503.
  17. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Design of a new decoupled XY flexure parallel kinematic manipulator with actuator isolation," in Proceedings of 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2008), Nice, France, September 22-26, 2008, pp. 470-475.
  18. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Structure improvement of an XY flexure micromanipulator for micro/nano scale manipulation," in Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress (IFAC 2008), Seoul, Korea, July 6-11, 2008, pp. 12733-12738.
  19. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Optimum design and development of a XY flexure micromanipulator for micro scale positioning," in Proceedings of 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2008), Pasadena, California, USA, May 19-23, 2008, pp. 3112-3117.
  20. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Design of a partially decoupled high precision XYZ compliant parallel micromanipulator," in Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (IEEE-NEMS 2008), Sanya, China, January 6-9, 2008, pp. 13-18.
  21. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Statics and dynamics performance evaluation for a high precision XYZ compliant parallel micromanipulator," in Proceedings of 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2007), Sanya, China, December 15-18, 2007, pp. 65-70.
  22. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Stiffness and statics analysis of a compact 3-PRC parallel micromanipulator for micro/nano scale manipulation," in Proceedings of 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2007), Sanya, China, December 15-18, 2007, pp. 59-64.
  23. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Design and application of a new 3-DOF translational parallel manipulator," in Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO'07), Hsinchu, Taiwan, December 9-11, 2007, pp. 85-90.
  24. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Improvement of kinematic performance for an orthogonal 3-PUU compliant parallel micromanipulator," in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2007), Jeju, Korea, August 21-24, 2007, pp. 147-152.
  25. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Dimension optimization of a new 3-PRC compliant parallel micromanipulator for biological cell injection," in Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Nano/Molecular Medicine and Engineering (IEEE-NANOMED 2007), Macao SAR, China, August 6-9, 2007.
  26. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Design modification of a 3-PRC compliant parallel micromanipulator for micro/nano scale manipulation," in Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO 2007), Hong Kong SAR, China, August 2-5, 2007, pp. 426-431.
  27. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Influences of constraint errors on the mobility of a 3-DOF translational parallel manipulator," in Proceedings of the 12th World Congress in Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM2007), Besancon, France, June 17-21, 2007, pp. 758-763.
  28. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "GA-based multi-objective optimal design of a planar 3-DOF cable-driven parallel manipulator," in Proceedings of 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2006), Kunming, China, December 17-20, 2006, pp. 1360-1365.
  29. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Stiffness optimization of a 3-DOF parallel kinematic machine using particle swarm optimization," in Proceedings of 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2006), Kunming, China, December 17-20, 2006, pp. 1169-1174.
  30. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Stiffness modeling of a spatial 3-DOF compliant parallel micromanipulator," in Proceedings of 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2006), Beijing, China, October 9-15, 2006, pp. 300-305.
  31. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Accuracy-based architecture optimization of a 3-DOF parallel kinematic machine," in Proceedings of 2006 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE 2006), Shanghai, China, October 7-10, 2006, pp. 63-68.
  32. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Stiffness modeling for an orthogonal 3-PUU compliant parallel micromanipulator," in Proceedings of 2006 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA 2006), Luoyang, Henan, China, June 25-28, 2006, pp. 124-129.
  33. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "GA-based architecture optimization of a 3-PUU parallel manipulator for stiffness performance," in Proceedings of the 6th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA 2006), Dalian, China, June 21-23, 2006, pp. 9099-9103.
  34. Y. Li, Q. Xu, and Y. Liu, "Novel design and modeling of a mobile parallel manipulator," in Proceedings of 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2006), Orlando, Florida, USA, May 15-19, 2006, pp. 1135-1140.
  35. Q. Xu and Y. Li, "Mechanical design of compliant parallel manipulators for nano scale manipulation," in Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (IEEE-NEMS 2006), Zhuhai, China, January 18-21, 2006, pp. 653-657.
  36. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Optimal design of a new nanopositioner using genetic algorithm," in Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (IEEE-NEMS 2006), Zhuhai, China, January 18-21, 2006, pp. 357-362. 
  37. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Kinematic analysis of a new 3-DOF translational parallel manipulator," in Proceedings of 2005 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC'05), Long Beach, California, USA, September 24-28, 2005, pp. 1015-1024, DETC2005-84299.
  38. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Dynamic analysis of a modified DELTA parallel robot for cardiopulmonary resuscitation," in Proceedings of 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2005), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, August 2-6, 2005, pp. 233-238.
  39. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Optimal design of a novel 2-DOF compliant parallel micromanipulator for nanomanipulation," in Proceedings of 2005 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE 2005), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, August 1-2, 2005, pp. 118-123.
  40. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Novel design of a 3-PUU spatial compliant parallel micromanipulator for nanomanipulation," in Proceedings of 2005 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA 2005), Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, July 29-August 1, 2005, pp. 1575-1580. (Best Paper Award Finalist in Mechatronics)
  41. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Kinematic design of a novel 3-DOF compliant parallel manipulator for nanomanipulation," in Proceedings of 2005 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2005), Monterey, California, USA, July 24-28, 2005, pp. 93-98.
  42. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Kinematic analysis and dynamic control of a 3-PUU parallel manipulator for cardiopulmonary resuscitation," in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2005), Seattle, Washington, USA, July 17-20, 2005, pp. 344-351.
  43. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Design and analysis of a new 3-DOF compliant parallel positioning platform for nanomanipulation," in Proceedings of 2005 5th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO 2005), Nagoya, Japan, July 11-15, 2005, pp. 861-864.
  44. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Optimal design and analysis of a 3-RRPaR parallel manipulator for chest compressions," in Proceedings of 2005 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM2005), Taipei, Taiwan, July 10-12, 2005, pp. 549-554.
  45. Y. Li and Q. Xu, "Kinematics and dexterity analysis for a novel 3-DOF translational parallel manipulator," in Proceedings of 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'05), Barcelona, Spain, April 18-22, 2005, pp. 2944-2949.
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