Micro fabricated tunable bending stiffness devices

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 89, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 119-123

  Tabata, Osamu ^a   Konishi, Satoshi ^a   Cusin, Pierre ^a   Ito, Yuichi ^a   Kawai, Fumie ^a   Hirai, Shinichi ^a   Kawamura, Sadao ^a  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ELECTROSTATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PNEUMATICS; STIFFNESS;

ELECTROSTATIC FORCE; MICROFABRICATION TECHNOLOGY; PNEUMATIC FORCE; TUNABLE BENDING STIFFNESS;

PNEUMATIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0035281248     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-4247(00)00538-0     Document Type: Article

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