Integrated flexible microactuator systems

Robotica

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 493-498

  Suzumori, Koichi ^a   Koga, Akihiro ^a   Kondo, Fumika ^a   Haneda, Riyoko ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flexible; FMA; Integrated; Microactuator system; Rubber actuator

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; LITHOGRAPHY; MANIPULATORS; MICROELECTRONICS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MODELS; MOTION PLANNING; PNEUMATIC CONTROL EQUIPMENT; RUBBER APPLICATIONS;

BALL HANDLING ABILITY; FLEXIBLE MICROACTUATOR; MICROROBOTS; STEREO LITHOGRAPHY;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 0030231019     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0263574700019974     Document Type: Article

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