Piezoelectric actuation and sensing for facial robotics

Ferroelectrics

Volumn 345, Issue , 2006, Pages 13-25

  Tadesse, Yonas ^a   Priya, Shashank ^a   Stephanou, Harry ^a   Popa, Dan ^a   Hanson, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b HANSON ROBOTICS   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Fiber composite; Humanoid; Piezoactuator; Sensor

Indexed keywords

FACIAL ROBOTICS; FIBER MATRIX COMPOSITES; ULTRASONIC MOTORS;

ACTUATORS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; SENSORS; SILICONES; ULTRASONIC DEVICES; VULCANIZATION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33845618139     PISSN: 00150193     EISSN: 15635112     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1080/00150190601018010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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