Piezoelectric ultrasonic resonant micromotor with a volume of less than 1 mm3 for use in medical microbots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2225-2230

  Watson, Brett ^a   Friend, James ^a   Yeo, Leslie ^a   Sitti, Metin ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD ZIRCONATE TITANATE ELEMENTS; MICRO-SCALES; MICROBOTS; MICROMOTOR; MICROROBOTS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NO LOAD; ON CURRENTS; RESONANT FREQUENCIES; START-UPS; STATOR DESIGN; STUMBLING BLOCKS;

MOTORS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; ROBOTICS; STATORS; ULTRASONICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 70350359827     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152400     Document Type: Conference Paper

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