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CMOS-Based Readout and Control Electronics for Microgrippers

Marco Mattavelli, Diego Ruben Barrettino
2020
Conference Papers

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This paper presents the design of an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) with all the necessary electronic blocks to read out and control Conjugate Surfaces Flexure Hinge (CSFH) microgrippers. The ASIC was fabricated using a high-voltage 0.35 mu m CMOS process and it can sense the positions of the gripping arms with a resolution of 0.10 mu m and control their positions with a steady-state error of 0.12% and a stabilization time of 670ms measured during laboratory tests.

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Marco Mattavelli, Diego Ruben Barrettino
2020
Conference Papers

Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/bca3a6c5-b1f0-41f1-b6d2-7a398e951be9

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