Biologically inspired anthropomorphic arm and dextrous robot hand actuated by smart material based artificial muscles

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6173, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Price, Aaron ^a   Jnifene, Amor ^b   Naguib, Hani E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Actuators; Biologically inspired; Prosthetics; Robotics; Shape memory alloy; Smart materials

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; INTELLIGENT MATERIALS; INTELLIGENT STRUCTURES; MUSCLE; PROSTHETICS; ROBOTIC ARMS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ARM; ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES; BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; PROSTHETIC ACTUATORS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33745953810     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.660471     Document Type: Conference Paper

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