Control of scalable wet SMA actuator arrays

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1338-1343

  Flemming, Leslie ^a   Mascaro, Stephen ^b  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Actuators; Biologically inspired; Scalable; Shape memory alloys

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ROBOTICS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; SOLENOIDS;

ACTUATOR ARRAYS; MATRIX MANIFOLD AND VALVE SYSTEM (MMV); ROBOTIC SYSTEMS;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 33846127477     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570301     Document Type: Conference Paper

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