Development of piezoelectric bending actuators with embedded piezoelectric sensors for micromechanical flapping mechanisms

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 3339-3346

  Campolo, Domenico ^a   Sahai, Ranjana ^a   Fearing, Ronald S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; ELECTRODES; FORCE MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANISMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; POSITION MEASUREMENT; SENSORS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

MICROMECHANICAL FLAPPING MECHANISMS; MICROMECHANICAL FLYING INSECT; PIEZOELECTRIC BENDING ACTUATORS; PIEZOELECTRIC SENSORS;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 0345327772     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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