Three-legged wireless miniature robots for mass-scale operations at the sub-atomic scale

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 4, Issue , 2001, Pages 3423-3428

  Martel, Sylvain ^a   Sherwood, Mark ^a   Helm, Chad ^a   De Quevedo, William Garcia ^a   Fofonoff, Timothy ^a   Dyer, Robert ^a   Bevilacqua, John ^a   Kaufman, Joshua ^a   Roushdy, Omar ^a   Hunter, Ian ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ALGORITHMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; TRACKING (POSITION); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS INSTRUMENTED ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0034868469     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2001.933147     Document Type: Article

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