The recycling of spent lithium-ion batteries can not only reduce the potential harm caused by
solid waste piles to the local environment but also provide raw materials for manufacturing …

Piezoelectric actuators are a class of actuators that precisely transfer input electric energy
into displacement, force, or movement outputs efficiently via inverse piezoelectric effect …

Piezoelectric actuators have been widely applied in precision electromechanical equipment
due to their high resolution, fast response, and flexible structure. However, existing rotary …

Piezoelectric actuators and motors are increasingly essential for space applications due to
their precision, compactness, and efficiency. This review explores their advantages over …

Piezoelectric actuators with forked substructures are popular in practical applications.
However, there is still a lack of effective modeling methods for forked piezoelectric actuators …

The present study introduces a multi-degree-of-freedom (MDOF) ultrasonic motor, which is
capable of driving a spherical rotor using spiral wire stators and a piezoelectric stack …

Flexible rotors are widely used in traveling wave rotary ultrasonic motors (TRUMs) because
of their higher energy conversion efficiency; however, there have been few reports on how …

Stick-slip piezoelectric actuators are widely used in precision engineering due to their high
accuracy and small size. However, most of these actuators achieve multi-DOF motion by …

The paper presents a numerical and experimental investigation of a 5-DOF piezoelectric
robot that is used for angular and planar positioning of optical devices and systems. The …

To fulfill high-reliability requirements for aerospace applications, a novel traveling wave
rotary ultrasonic motor with a piezoelectric backup function (Backup motor) is proposed in …