Integrated design of IPMC actuator/sensor

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 1834-1839

  Yamakita, Masaki ^a,b   Sera, Akio ^a   Kamamichi, Norihiro ^a   Asaka, Kinji ^c   Luo, Zhi Wei ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; INTEGRATED CONTROL; IONS; ROBOTICS; SENSORS;

ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE; INTEGRATED DESIGN; IONIC POLYMER METAL COMPOSITE (IPMC); SENSOR FUNCTION;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 33845631578     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1641973     Document Type: Conference Paper

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