Recent trends in piezoelectric actuators for precision motion and their applications: A review

S Mohith, AR Upadhya, KP Navin… - Smart Materials and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The need for precision positioning applications has enormously influenced the research and
development towards the growth of precision actuators. Over the years, piezoelectric …

A review on piezoelectric ultrasonic motors for the past decade: Classification, operating principle, performance, and future work perspectives

X Tian, Y Liu, J Deng, L Wang, W Chen - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2020 - Elsevier
Hundreds of piezoelectric ultrasonic motors (PUSMs) have been proposed for scientific
researches and developed for commercial applications in the past decade. They are …

A review of recent studies on piezoelectric pumps and their applications

H Li, J Liu, K Li, Y Liu - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2021 - Elsevier
Piezoelectric pumps have obtained considerable significance and have become the focus
area of research for biomedicine, fuel supply, liquid cooling, chemistry and precision driving …

A 2-DOF needle insertion device using inertial piezoelectric actuator

J Deng, S Liu, Y Liu, L Wang, X Gao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Insertion into delicate tissue, such as retina vein occlusion, cell manipulation, and
vitreoretinal injection, poses challenges to surgeons and biomedical researchers due to the …

A review of recent studies on non-resonant piezoelectric actuators

L Wang, W Chen, J Liu, J Deng, Y Liu - Mechanical Systems and Signal …, 2019 - Elsevier
Various non-resonant piezoelectric actuators have been emerged in recent decades and
they have been applied successfully in many industrial fields, such as medical apparatuses …

[HTML][HTML] A review of recent advances in the single-and multi-degree-of-freedom ultrasonic piezoelectric motors

R Ryndzionek, Ł Sienkiewicz - Ultrasonics, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper a comprehensive review of recent studies on the ultrasonic piezoelectric motors
is presented. The authors focus on research articles published in the last five years mostly …

Developments and challenges of miniature piezoelectric robots: A review

J Li, J Deng, S Zhang, W Chen, J Zhao… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Miniature robots have been widely studied and applied in the fields of search and rescue,
reconnaissance, micromanipulation, and even the interior of the human body benefiting from …

Crabbot: A pole-climbing robot driven by piezoelectric stack

X Ma, Y Liu, J Liu, J Deng - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Problems of large sizes and low displacement resolutions widely exist in most of the pole-
climbing robots based on electromagnetic or electrostatic motors, which greatly decrease …

A compact 2-DOF micro/nano manipulator using single miniature piezoelectric tube actuator

X Gao, J Deng, S Zhang, L Jing… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Micro/nano manipulators using piezoelectric actuators are extensively applied in precision
manipulation fields. In this article, a novel 2-DOF micro/nano manipulator with compact …

Development of a nanopositioning platform with large travel range based on bionic quadruped piezoelectric actuator

J Deng, Y Liu, S Zhang, J Li - IEEE/ASME Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A piezoelectric platform driven by a bionic quadruped piezoelectric actuator is developed. It
uses the operating principle of combining bionic walking and swinging actuation modes to …