Design of a piezoelectric meso-scale mobile robot: A compliant amplification approach

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1137-1142

  Varma, V K ^a   Dixon, W E ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIPED LOCOMOTION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

MESO SCALE MOBILE ROBOT; PIEZOELECTRIC FORCES;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0036059527     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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