Analysis, design and control of a planar micro-robot driven by two centripetal-force actuators

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 649-654

  Vartholomeos, Panagiotis ^a   Papadopoulos, Evangelos ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Feedback control; Micro positioning; Micro robot

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; FORCE MEASUREMENT; POSITION CONTROL; SYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY;

CENTRIPETAL FORCE; MICRO POSITIONING; MICRO ROBOTS; MICROMOTOR DESIGNS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 33845670924     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1641784     Document Type: Conference Paper

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