Improving performance of motorized slides for micromanipulation.

Abstract:

:Motorized linear slides used as micromanipulators for biological use suffer from 3 problems: vibration at low speed, poor ergonomic design of the controller and slow coarse positioning. These problems are not hard to solve by minor modifications to the controller and the slides.

journal_name

J Neurosci Methods

authors

Gao XQ,Sachs F

doi

10.1016/0165-0270(89)90040-x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1989-06-01 00:00:00

pages

225-7

issue

3

eissn

0165-0270

issn

1872-678X

pii

0165-0270(89)90040-X

journal_volume

28

pub_type

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