Design of a piezoelectric caterpillar motor

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Aerospace Division (Publication) AD

Volumn 52, Issue , 1996, Pages 627-641

  Pandell, Tracy ^a,b   Garcia, Ephrahim ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Active Control eXperts Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAMPING DEVICES; DESIGN; EXPERIMENTS; MOTORS; PRECISION ENGINEERING; WORM GEARS;

CLAMPING MECHANISMS; INCHWORM MOTOR; PIEZOELECTRIC CATER PILLAR MOTOR;

PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES;

EID: 0030421759     PISSN: 07334230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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