Design and control of an IPMC wormlike robot

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1044-1052

  Arena, Paolo ^a   Bonomo, Claudia ^a   Fortuna, Luigi ^a   Frasca, Mattia ^a   Graziani, Salvatore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cellular neural networks (CNNs); Smart actuators; Undulatory locomotion; Wormlike robot

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BIOMECHANICS; CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; INTELLIGENT STRUCTURES;

SMART ACTUATORS; UNDULATORY LOCOMOTION; WORMLIKE ROBOT;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

ANIMAL; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LOCOMOTION; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ANNELIDA; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER);

EID: 33749388695     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2006.873188     Document Type: Article

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