Developments of two novel types of underwater crawling microrobots

IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1884-1889

  Zhang, Wei ^a   Guo, Shuxiang ^a,b   Asaka, Kinji ^c  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crawling microrobot; ICPF actuator; Speed matrix; Underwater microrobot

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; KINEMATICS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEED; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRAJECTORIES; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT;

CRAWLING MICROROBOT; ICPF ACTUATOR; SPEED MATRIX; UNDERWATER MICROROBOT;

ROBOTS;

EID: 27744567510     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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