Motion design of a starfish-shaped gel robot made of electro-active polymer gel

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 40, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 185-191

  Otake, Mihoko ^a   Kagami, Yoshiharu ^b   Inaba, Masayuki ^a   Inoue, Hirochika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deformable; Electro active polymer; Gel robot; Motion design; Starfish

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRODES; GELS; MOTION PLANNING; POLYMERS;

GEL ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0037206239     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(02)00243-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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