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IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 54-60

  Yoshida, Eiichi ^a,b   Murata, Satoshi ^b,c   Kokaji, Shigeru ^b   Kamimura, Akiya ^b   Tomita, Kohji ^b   Kurokawa, Haruhisa ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c Tokyo Institute of Technology ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Microrobot; Modular robot; Self reconfigurable robot; SMA actuator

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; TORQUE;

SELF-RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTIC SYSTEMS;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 0037001922     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2002.1160072     Document Type: Article

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