Objectives
- Learn the use of piezo actuators
- Understand main principles
- Know how to operate piezo actuators with their electronics
Who should attend ?
Electronic and mechanical engineers, technicians.
Language
- Copies in English
- Training taught in English
Programme
- Basic knowledge
- Basics on piezoelectric materials bulk and MLA
- Piezo materials for actuators
- Constitutive laws / Equivalent electric circuit
- Review of piezoelectric actuators
- Review of direct and amplified piezoelectric actuators
- Piezo mechanisms
- Driving piezo actuators
- Exercises
- Review of piezoelectric motors
- Inchworm stepping motors
- Ultrasonic motors
- Inertial stepping motors (Impact drive mechanisms)
- Contact, mechanism & tribology
- Applications
- Positioning of optics & instruments
- Smart wings
- Refocusing
- Vibration assistance
