Biologically inspired robots

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4329, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 16-27

  Melhuish, Chris ^a   Adamatzky, Andrew ^a   Kennedy, Brett ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biologically inspired; EAP; Electroactive polymers; Genetic algorithm; Integrated design; Micro robot; Rapid prototyping; Robot

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MUSCLE; POLYMERS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; ROBOTICS;

ELECTROACTIVE POLYMERS (EAP);

ROBOTS;

EID: 0034783908     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.432659     Document Type: Article

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