Flexure design rules for carbon fiber microrobotic mechanisms

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1579-1584

  Avadhanula, S ^a   Fearing, R S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLEXURAL COMPONENTS; FLEXURE DESIGN; RIGID LINKS;

CARBON FIBERS; GEOMETRY;

ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY;

EID: 33846175714     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570339     Document Type: Conference Paper

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