“…But they seldom considered the actual application in precision engineering (PE). On the contrary some FTSs have been designed taking little account of the design principles of CMs (Cuttino et al, 1999;Gan et al, 2007;Huo and Cheng, 2008;Kim and Kim, 2003;Kim et al, 2004Kim et al, , 2009Kouno, 1984;Noh et al, 2009;Spotts et al, 2004;Tian et al, 2009). Therefore, there is a need for a comprehensive and robust design method combining with CMs and PE to meet the stringent requirements of ultra precision machining.…”