Robotic micro-assembly of scaffold/cell constructs with a shape memory alloy gripper

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1483-1488

  Zhang, Han ^a   Burdet, Etienne ^a   Hutmacher, Dietmar Werner ^a   Poo, Aun Neow ^a   Bellouard, Yves ^b   Clavel, Reymond ^c   Sidler, Thomas ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Micro assembly; Micro gripper; Scaffold; Shape memory alloy (SMA); Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIALS; CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAFTS; INJECTION MOLDING; PLASMA ETCHING; POLYMERS; ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; TISSUE;

MICROGRIPPER; ROBOTIC MICROASSEMBLY; SCAFFOLD CELL CONSTRUCTS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

GRIPPERS;

EID: 0036059861     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2002.1014753     Document Type: Article

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