Tracking of Triangular References Using Signal Transformation for Control of a Novel AFM Scanner Stage

In this paper, we design feedback controllers for lateral and transversal axes of an atomic force microscope (AFM) piezoelectric tube scanner. The controllers are constrained to keep the standard deviation of the measurement noise fed back to the displacement output around 0.13 nm. It is shown that the incorporation of appropriate inner loops provides disturbance rejection capabilities and robustness against dc gain uncertainties, two...