The jellyfish: "Smart" electro-active polymers for an autonomous distributed sensing node

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6231, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Blottman, John B ^a   Richards, Roger T ^a  

^a NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed Sensing; Electro active Polymer; Energy harvesting; Sonar

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED SENSING; ELECTRO-ACTIVE POLYMER (EAP); ENERGY HARVESTING; TRUE NODE AUTONOMY;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; ENERGY CONSERVATION; HYDROPHONES; PROBLEM SOLVING; SONAR;

SENSORS;

EID: 33747369914     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.673124     Document Type: Conference Paper

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