Comment on "Nanorobotics control design: A collective behavior approach for medicine"

IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 201-203

  Curtis, A S G ^a   Cavalcanti, Adriano ^b   Freitas Jr , Robert A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Nanorobotics; Scaling to the nanoscale

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; MACHINE DESIGN; MOBILE ROBOTS; OSCILLATIONS; ROBOTICS; TISSUE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CONTROL AUTOMATION; NANOROBOTICS; ROBOT DESIGN; SCALING TO THE NANOSCALE;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOPERATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROMANIPULATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NOTE; ROBOTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK; MICROMANIPULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ROBOTICS;

EID: 22544448992     PISSN: 15361241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNB.2005.850471     Document Type: Review

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