A traveling wave piezoelectric beam robot

H Hariri, Y Bernard, A Razek - Smart Materials and Structures, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, the operation principles of a traveling wave piezoelectric beam robot are
presented. A prototype consisting of an aluminum beam structure, with two non-collocated …

A Miniature Traveling Wave Ultrasonic Linear Motor Utilizing Bimorph Transducers

Z Wen, D Wu, K Nakamura - IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Scaling down linear actuators is crucial for various industrial applications, yet the efficiency
of electromagnetic linear actuators decreases significantly as they are miniaturized …

Design and analysis of a piezoelectric inchworm actuator

L Ma, C Jiang, J Xiao, K Wang - Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics, 2014 - Springer
Piezoelectric inchworm actuators are developed from the motion features of nature
inchworm with the advantages of large stroke, high resolution and rigidity and flexible …

Low Z linear vibrator

S Cohen, AY Shukla, A Pletenetskyy, N Merz… - US Patent …, 2018 - Google Patents
A low Z linear vibrator is described well suited for use in small form factor portable devices
such as a smartphone. The low Z vibrator can be configured to include a beam structure that …

Modelling and optimal design of a ring-type structure for the generation of a traveling wave

X Liu, D Shi, Y Civet, Y Perriard - … International Conference on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traveling wave generation in a ring type stator has been studied. The basic working
principle to create traveling wave has been modelled by the superposition of two orthogonal …

New design of piezoelectric plate-type vibrator based on quasi-traveling wave

P Fan, C Li, T Yuan - Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical …, 2018 - Springer
This paper proposes a novel piezoelectric vibrator using a two-layer rectangular plate with
the sizes of 90× 50× 20 mm 3, to produce quasi-traveling wave in a compact structure. The …

[PDF][PDF] Assessment of Miniature Piezoelectric Travelling-Wave Beam and Plate Robots

A Razek - Athens Journal of Technology & Engineering - athensjournals.gr
Different up-to-date utilizations have found several benefits in condensing the size of
autonomous robots. Miniature traveling wave piezoelectric robots have proven to be …

Miniaturization of the quasi-traveling wave ultrasonic linear motor using a ring type rectangular vibrator

SX Zhang, CD Li - Advanced Materials Research, 2012 - Trans Tech Publ
Ultrasonic linear motor, Piezoelectricity, Rectangular vibrator, Traveling wave Abstract. With
the aim of realizing quasi-traveling wave drive in ultrasonic linear micro motors, a novel …

[PDF][PDF] Ultrasonic motors inspired piezoelectric miniature robot

H Hariri, Y Bernard - academia.edu
A new piezoelectric miniature robot design inspired from linear traveling wave ultrasonic
motors is introduced and a comparison between the robot and some linear traveling wave …

[PDF][PDF] Piezoelectric miniature robot inspired by Ultrasonic motors

H Hariri, Y Bernard, A Razek - researchgate.net
A new piezoelectric miniature robot design inspired from linear traveling wave ultrasonic
motors is introduced and a comparison between the robot and some linear traveling wave …