Research Article

Dynamic Analysis of a 5-DOF Flexure-Based Nanopositioning Stage

Table 3

Modal results of the dynamic model of the 5-DOF nanopositioning stage.

Order Analytic FEATestMode shapes
/Hz/%E/Hz/%E/Hz 

171.15.872.27.467.2Translation of the base along the z-axis
278.46.475.93.073.7Rotation of the base about the x-axis
379.07.276.23.473.7Rotation of the base about the y-axis
4106.915.398.36.092.7Translation of plate 2 along the y-axis
5116.112.7104.61.6103Translation of the base along the x-axis
6169.818.1144.10.2143.8Rotation of the XY stage about the z-axis
7184.220.3161.35.4153.1Translation of plate 3 along the y-axis
8202.819.4176.13.7169.8Translation of motion plate 1 along the x-axis