Ultrasonic motor

Piezoelectric micromotors for microrobots

Anita M. Flynn, Lee S. Tavrow, Stephen F. Bart, Rodney A. Brooks, D. J. Ehrlich, Krishna Udayakumar, L. E. Cross

Citations: 229 • 1992

MR Compatibility of Mechatronic Devices: Design Criteria

Kiyoyuki Chinzei, Ron Kikinis, Ferenc A. Jólesz

Citations: 211 • 1999

Five-fingered Robot Hand using Ultrasonic Motors and Elastic Elements

I. Yamano, Takashi Maéno

Citations: 122 • 2006

Design of an MRI-Compatible Robotic Stereotactic Device for Minimally Invasive Interventions in the Breast†

Blake T. Larson, Arthur G. Erdman, Nikolaos V. Tsekos, Essa Yacoub, Panagiotis V. Tsekos, Ioannis G. Koutlas

Citations: 115 • 2004

MRI Compatibility of Robot Actuation Techniques – A Comparative Study

Gregory S. Fischer, Axel Krieger, Iulian Iordachita, Csaba Csoma, Louis L. Whitcomb, Gábor Fichtinger

Citations: 97 • 2008

A novel piezoelectric inertial rotary motor for actuating micro underwater vehicles

Le Wang, Yuan-Jun Hou, Kangdong Zhao, Hui Shen, Zhiweng Wang, Chunsheng Zhao, Xiaolong Lu

Citations: 74 • 2019

Robotic System for Closed-Bore MRI-Guided Prostatic Interventions

A.A. Goldenberg, John Trachtenberg, Walter Kucharczyk, Yang Yi, Masoom A. Haider, Leo Ma, Robert Weersink, Cyrus Raoufi

Citations: 69 • 2008

Multi degree of freedom spherical ultrasonic motor

S. Toyama, Shigeru Sugitani, Yasutaro Miyatani, K. Nakamura

Citations: 69 • 2002

Cylindrical Micro Ultrasonic Motor Utilizing Bulk Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT)

Takeshi Morita, Minoru Kurosawa, Toshiro Higuchi

Citations: 69 • 1999

A novel additive manufactured three-dimensional piezoelectric transducer: Systematic modeling and experimental validation

Liang Wang, Viktor Hofmann, Fushi Bai, Jiamei Jin, Jens Twiefel

Citations: 66 • 2018

A robot finger joint driven by hybrid multi-DOF piezoelectric ultrasonic motor

Xiaofeng Zhang, Guangbin Zhang, Kentaro Nakamura, Sadayuki Ueha

Citations: 64 • 2011

Integrated thin-film piezoelectric traveling wave ultrasonic motors

Gabriel L. Smith, Ryan Q. Rudy, Ronald G. Polcawich, Don L. DeVoe

Citations: 60 • 2011

Ultrasonic micro-motor using miniature piezoelectric tube with diameter of 1.0mm

Hui Zhang, Shuxiang Dong, Shu-yi Zhang, Tianhua Wang, Zhongning Zhang, Li Fan

Citations: 60 • 2006

Development of a robot finger for five-fingered hand using ultrasonic motors

I. Yamano, Kenjiro Takemura, Takashi Maéno

Citations: 57 • 2004

Development of a novel spherical stator multi-DOF ultrasonic motor using in-plane non-axisymmetric mode

Zhibo Huang, Shengjun Shi, Weishan Chen, Liang Wang, Lijun Wu, Yingxiang Liu

Citations: 52 • 2020

A Review of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Compatible Manipulators in Surgery

Haytham Elhawary, Aleksandar Zivanovic, Brian Davies, Michael Lampérth

Citations: 49 • 2006

Development of a Δ-Type Mobile Robot Driven by Three Standing-Wave-Type Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Motors

Juntian Zhou, Masaki Suzuki, Ryoma Takahashi, Kengo Tanabe, Yuki Nishiyama, Hajime SUGIUCHI, Yusuke Maeda, Ohmi Fuchiwaki

Citations: 49 • 2020

Dual piezoelectric beam robot: The effect of piezoelectric patches’ positions

Hassan Hariri, Yves Bernard, Adel Razek

Citations: 46 • 2015

Piezoelectric micromotors for microrobots

Anita M. Flynn, Lee S. Tavrow, Stephen F. Bart, Rodney A. Brooks, D. J. Ehrlich, Krishna Udayakumar, L. E. Cross

Citations: 42 • 2002

Fuzzy auto-tuning PID control of multiple joint robot driven by ultrasonic motors

Zhijun Sun, Rentao Xing, Chunsheng Zhao, Weiqing Huang

Citations: 41 • 2007