Inverse dynamics of gel robots made of electro-active polymer gel

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 2299-2304

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVE PLASTICS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); GELS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION CONTROL; PLASTICS APPLICATIONS;

DEFORMABLE ROBOTS; ELECTROACTIVE POLYMER GEL; GEL ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0344014155     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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