Piezoelectric inertia motors—also known as stick-slip motors or (smooth) impact drives—use
the inertia of a body to drive it in small steps by means of an uninterrupted friction contact. In …

This paper describes substantial investigations on stick-slip micro drives. The drives are the
basis for miniaturized micro-and nanohandling robots, which are usually driven by piezo …

In this paper, a piezo actuated micro robot with active force control (AFC) capability is
modelled and simulated for an in-pipe application. A mathematical model that describes the …

Diese Arbeit entstand während meiner Zeit als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl
für Mechatronik und Dynamik der Fakultät für Maschinenbau der Universität Paderborn. Als …

Abstract Single crystals of Tb-Dy alloys exhibit magnetostrictive strains and forces sufficiently
large to make them useful as actuators in cryogenic mechanical devices. These actuators …