Ultrasonic Motors

A comprehensive tutorial on ultrasonic motors for practicing engineers, researchers and graduate students. "Ultrasonic Motors: Technologies and Applications" describes the operating mechanism, electromechanical coupling models, optimization design of structural parameters, testing methods, and drive/control techniques of various ultrasonic motors and their applications.

Dr. Chunsheng Zhao is a professor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) where he is Director of the Precision Driving Laboratory at NUAA. He is a member of the Chinese Academy of Science, and holds 54 patents in China and published more than 400 papers in the field of piezoelectric ultrasonic motors.

Introduction. - Fundamentals of Piezoelectricity and Piezoelectric Materials for Ultrasonic Motors. - Fundamentals of Tribology and Tribomaterials for Ultrasonic Motors. - Fundamentals of Vibration for Ultrasonic Motors. - Operation Mechanism and Modeling of Traveling Wave Rotary Ultrasonic Motors. - Design and Manufacture of Traveling Wave Rotary Ultrasonic Motors. - Bar-Type Traveling Wave Rotary Ultrasonic Motors. - Ultrasonic Motors Using Longitudinal-Torsional Hybrid Vibration. - Linear Ultrasonic Motors. - Step Ultrasonic Motors. - Other Ultrasonic Motors. - Driving Techniques for Ultrasonic Motors. - Control Techniques for Ultrasonic Motors. - Testing Techniques for Ultrasonic Motors. - Applications of Ultrasonic Motors in Engineering.