Application requirements of artificial muscles for swimming robots

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4329, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 364-374

  Kerrebrock, Peter A ^a   Anderson, Jamie M ^a   Parry, Joel ^a  

^a CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial muscle; Fish like vehicles; Swimming robot

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BUOYANCY; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FORCE CONTROL; MUSCLE; SYSTEM STABILITY; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES; SWIMMING ROBOTS;

MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS;

EID: 0034779059     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.432686     Document Type: Article

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