Cricket-based robots

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 20-30

  Birch, Matthew C ^a   Quinn, Roger D ^a   Hahm, Geon ^a   Phillips, Stephen M ^a   Drennan, Barry T ^a   Fife, Andrew J ^a   Beer, Randall D ^a   Yu, Xinyu ^a   Garverick, Steven L ^a   Laksanacharoen, Sathaporn ^b   Pollack, Alan J ^a   Ritzmann, Roy E ^c  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KING MONGKUT'S UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY NORTH BANGKOK   (Thailand)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial muscles; Biology; MEMS; Micro valves; Minature robots; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

HYBRID ROBOTS;

ACTUATORS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROCONTROLLERS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; NEURAL NETWORKS; SENSORS; TORQUE;

ROBOTS;

EID: 0036999211     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2002.1160068     Document Type: Article

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