Polyhedral single degree-of-freedom expanding structures: Design and prototypes

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 473-478

  Agrawal, Sunil K ^a   Kumar, Saravana ^a   Yim, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; DESIGN; LATTICE CONSTANTS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM STRUCTURES;

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS);

EID: 0036750389     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1480413     Document Type: Article

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