Research Activities

Thiviyathinesvaran Palani, Hiroaki Fukushima, Shunsuke Izuhara, "Connectivity preserving decentralized UAV swarm navigation in obstacle-laden environments without explicit communication," Advanced Robotics, 1–17, 2025.

Shunsuke Izuhara, Tomoaki Mashimo,  "Micro Linear Ultrasonic Motor with a Hall Sensor-Based Feedback Control System," IEEE Access, 2024.

Shunsuke Izuhara, Tomoaki Mashimo, "Tilting ultrasonic motor using extension and shear vibration modes," Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 357, 114390, 2023.

Naoya Masuda, Shunsuke Izuhara, Tomoaki Mashimo, "Miniature camera module with a hollow linear ultrasonic motor-based focus feature," Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 354, 114248, 2023. 

Shunsuke Izuhara, Tomoaki Mashimo, “Design and characterization of a thin linear ultrasonic motor for miniature focus systems," Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 329, 112797, 2021.

Tomoaki Mashimo, Shunsuke Izuhara, “Review: Recent Advances in Micromotors,” IEEE Access, Vol. 8, pp. 213489–213501, 2020.

Shunsuke Izuhara, Tomoaki Mashimo. “Characterization of bulk piezoelectric element-based ultrasonic motors,”　ROBOMECH Journal 7.1, pp. 1-8, 2020.

Shunsuke Izuhara, Tomoaki Mashimo, “Linear piezoelectric motor using a hollow rectangular stator,” Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 309, 112002, 2020.

T. Mashimo, S. Izuhara, S. Arai, Z. Zhang, H. Oku, “High-Speed Visual Feedback Control of Miniature Rotating Mirror System Using a Micro Ultrasonic Motor,” IEEE Access, Vol. 8, pp. 38546–38553, 2019.

Shunsuke Izuhara, Tomoaki Mashimo, “Design and Evaluation of a Micro Linear Ultrasonic Motor,” Sensors and Actuators: Physical, 278, pp. 60-66, 2018.

Shunsuke Izuhara, “Design, Evaluation, and Application of Miniature Ultrasonic Motors,” International Workshop on Piezoelectric Materials and Applications in Actuators (IWPMA2024), Hannover, Germany, July, 2024.

Tsukiho Fujitani, Shunsuke Izuhara, Hiroaki Fukushima, “Design and Evaluation of Miniature Ultrasonic Motor Driven by Low-order Vibration Mode,” International Workshop on Piezoelectric Materials and Applications in Actuators (IWPMA2024), Hannover, Germany, July, 2024.

Shunsuke Izuhara, Hiroaki Fukushima, Tomoaki Mashimo, “Design and evaluation of planar two-degree-of-freedom ultrasonic motor using link mechanism,” the 7th International Conference on Advanced Electromaterials (ICAE 2023), Jeju, Korea, October, 2023.

Shunsuke Izuhara, Tomoaki Mashimo, “Design and evaluation of swing motion ultrasonic motor,” International Workshop on Piezoelectric Materials and Applications in Actuators (IWPMA2022), on-site, October, 2022.

Shunsuke Izuhara, Tomoaki Mashimo, “Micro Linear Ultrasonic Motor Using a Thin Stator,” International Workshop on Piezoelectric Materials and Applications in Actuators (IWPMA2021), on-site, October, 2021.

Shunsuke Izuhara, Tomoaki Mashimo, “Miniature Hollow Linear Ultrasonic Motor,” International Workshop on Piezoelectric Materials and Applications in Actuators (IWPMA2020), on-site, September, 2020.

Shunsuke Izuhara, Zhong ZHANG, Tomoaki Mashimo, “Visual Feedback Control of Micro Ultrasonic Motor,” International Workshop on Piezoelectric Materials and Applications in Actuators (IWPMA2019), Lyon, France, October, 2019.

Shunsuke Izuhara, Tomoaki Mashimo, “Miniature Robot Finger using a Micro Linear Ultrasonic Motor and a Closed-loop Linkage,” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain, October, 2018.

Shunsuke Izuhara, Tomoaki Mashimo, “Micro Linear Ultrasonic Motor,” International Workshop on Piezoelectric Materials and Applications in Actuators (IWPMA 2018)，W2P2-1，Kobe，Japan，September，2018．

Shunsuke Izuhara，Tomoaki Mashimo，“Micro Linear Motor with a Cuboid Stator with Length 2.2 mm,” International Conference and Exhibition on New Actuators and Drive System (ACTUATOR 2018)，presentation P 14，Bremen，German，June，2018．

2019.3 2019年IEEE名古屋支部国際会議研究発表賞

2019.3 IEEE Excellent Student Award, IEEE Nagoya Section

2019.3 豊橋技術科学大学学生表彰

2018.6 精密工学会　2018年春季大会ベストプレゼンテーション賞

2017.12 公益財団法人豊秋奨学会　海外渡航旅費助成

2015.3 日本機械学会　畠山賞

2014.11 一般社団法人形状記憶合金協会　SMAシンポジウムポスターセッション最優秀賞