An Easily Fabricated Linear Piezoelectric Actuator Using Sandwich Longitudinal Vibrators With Four Driving Feet

A piezoelectric actuator using three sandwich longitudinal vibrators is proposed and tested. The two horizontal vibrators are parallel to each other and orthogonal to the vertical vibrator. The ends of the two horizontal vibrators serve as the four driving feet. The actuator has a simple fabricating...

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Main Authors: Weishan Chen, Xinqi Tian, Kailei Xue, Shuo Chen, Hongpeng Yu
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Published: IEEE 2019-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8588320/
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Xinqi Tian
Kailei Xue
Shuo Chen
Hongpeng Yu
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Xinqi Tian
Kailei Xue
Shuo Chen
Hongpeng Yu
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description A piezoelectric actuator using three sandwich longitudinal vibrators is proposed and tested. The two horizontal vibrators are parallel to each other and orthogonal to the vertical vibrator. The ends of the two horizontal vibrators serve as the four driving feet. The actuator has a simple fabricating process, which will shorten the period of fabrication. Two modes of the actuator are used to get the elliptical trajectories on the driving feet. The frequencies of the two modes are tuned to be about 21.60 kHz with modal analysis by the finite element method (FEM). The operating principle is also examined with transient analysis by FEM. A prototype is fabricated and its vibration characteristics are verified by using a scanning laser Doppler vibrometer. The prototype shows the best mechanical performance with the optimum working frequency and phase difference of 18.50 kHz and 60&#x00B0;, respectively. The typical output of the prototype is a no-load speed of 439.41 mm/s, a maximum thrust of 40 N, and a maximum power of 5.01 W at the voltage of 200 <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${V} _{\mathrm {P-P}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. The mechanical characteristics of the prototype show that the exciting voltages can be used for the speed control due to the approximately linear relationship between them.
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spelling doaj.art-8c367a9898c545b2a419ae507ea465eb2022-12-21T23:25:38ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362019-01-0174506451510.1109/ACCESS.2018.28898078588320An Easily Fabricated Linear Piezoelectric Actuator Using Sandwich Longitudinal Vibrators With Four Driving FeetWeishan Chen0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1272-1652Xinqi Tian1Kailei Xue2Shuo Chen3Hongpeng Yu4State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Robotics and System, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Robotics and System, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Robotics and System, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Robotics and System, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, ChinaA piezoelectric actuator using three sandwich longitudinal vibrators is proposed and tested. The two horizontal vibrators are parallel to each other and orthogonal to the vertical vibrator. The ends of the two horizontal vibrators serve as the four driving feet. The actuator has a simple fabricating process, which will shorten the period of fabrication. Two modes of the actuator are used to get the elliptical trajectories on the driving feet. The frequencies of the two modes are tuned to be about 21.60 kHz with modal analysis by the finite element method (FEM). The operating principle is also examined with transient analysis by FEM. A prototype is fabricated and its vibration characteristics are verified by using a scanning laser Doppler vibrometer. The prototype shows the best mechanical performance with the optimum working frequency and phase difference of 18.50 kHz and 60&#x00B0;, respectively. The typical output of the prototype is a no-load speed of 439.41 mm/s, a maximum thrust of 40 N, and a maximum power of 5.01 W at the voltage of 200 <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${V} _{\mathrm {P-P}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. The mechanical characteristics of the prototype show that the exciting voltages can be used for the speed control due to the approximately linear relationship between them.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8588320/Linear piezoelectric actuatorresonant statesandwich longitudinal vibratorsvibration test
spellingShingle Weishan Chen
Xinqi Tian
Kailei Xue
Shuo Chen
Hongpeng Yu
An Easily Fabricated Linear Piezoelectric Actuator Using Sandwich Longitudinal Vibrators With Four Driving Feet
IEEE Access
Linear piezoelectric actuator
resonant state
sandwich longitudinal vibrators
vibration test
title An Easily Fabricated Linear Piezoelectric Actuator Using Sandwich Longitudinal Vibrators With Four Driving Feet
title_full An Easily Fabricated Linear Piezoelectric Actuator Using Sandwich Longitudinal Vibrators With Four Driving Feet
title_fullStr An Easily Fabricated Linear Piezoelectric Actuator Using Sandwich Longitudinal Vibrators With Four Driving Feet
title_full_unstemmed An Easily Fabricated Linear Piezoelectric Actuator Using Sandwich Longitudinal Vibrators With Four Driving Feet
title_short An Easily Fabricated Linear Piezoelectric Actuator Using Sandwich Longitudinal Vibrators With Four Driving Feet
title_sort easily fabricated linear piezoelectric actuator using sandwich longitudinal vibrators with four driving feet
topic Linear piezoelectric actuator
resonant state
sandwich longitudinal vibrators
vibration test
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8588320/
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