Propulsion of a swimming micro medical robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1327-1331

  Kósa, Gábor ^a   Shoham, Moshe ^a   Zaaroor, Menashe ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fluid flow analysis; Medical robor; Micro robot; Swimming robot

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ENDOSCOPY; HEALTH CARE; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; OPTIMIZATION; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES;

FLUID FLOW ANALYSIS; MEDICAL ROBOTS; MICRO ROBOTS; SWIMMING ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33750460353     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570299     Document Type: Conference Paper

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