An infrastructure suited for supporting a fleet of wireless miniature robots designed for atomic-scale operations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4568, Issue , 2001, Pages 221-230

  Martel, Sylvain ^a   Koker, Torsten ^b   Riebel, Stefan ^b   Sherwood, Mark ^c   Suurkivi, Jeremy ^c   Hunter, Ian ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Infrared communication; Infrared positioning; Miniature wireless robots; Nanorobotic platform

Indexed keywords

INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; TRACKING (POSITION); USER INTERFACES;

MINIATURE WIRELESS ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0035764184     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.444129     Document Type: Article

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