A rapidly prototyped 2-axis positioning stage for microassembly using large displacement compliant mechanisms

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 289-295

  Hoover, A M ^a   Avadhanula, S ^a   Groff, R E ^a   Fearing, Ronald S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION MOLDING; INTERPOLATION; MECHATRONICS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; ROBOTICS;

AUTOMATED ASSEMBLY; COMMODITY HARDWARE; MICROASSEMBLY; PRECISION POSITIONING SYSTEMS;

POSITION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 33845636206     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1641726     Document Type: Conference Paper

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