Adapting the ultrasonic/sonic driller/corer for walking/climbing robotic applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5762, Issue , 2005, Pages 160-168

  Badescu, Mircea ^a   Bao, Xiaoqi ^a   Bar Cohen, Yoseph ^a   Chang, Zensheu ^a   Dabiri, Borna E ^a   Kennedy, Brett ^a   Sherrit, Stewart ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Limbed robot; Piezoelectric devices; Soil drill; Ultrasonic drilling

Indexed keywords

END-EFFECTERS; LIMBED ROBOTS; SOIL DRILL; ULTRASONIC DRILLING;

DRILLING; IN SITU PROCESSING; MOBILE ROBOTS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; SAMPLING; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ULTRASONIC DEVICES;

EID: 25144481009     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.598870     Document Type: Conference Paper

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