Complete system for wireless powering and remote control of electrostatic actuators by inductive coupling

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 23-31

  Basset, Philippe ^a,b   Kaiser, Andreas ^a,c   Legrand, Bernard ^a   Collard, Dominique ^a,d   Buchaillot, Lionel ^a  

^a INSTITUT D ELECTRONIQUE   (France)

^b National Centre of Scientific Research   (France)

^c Institut Superieur de l'Electronique et du Numerique   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distributed micro motion system (DMMS); Electrostatic actuator; High voltage IC; Microelectromechanical system (MEMS); Microrobot; Remote control; Wireless powering

Indexed keywords

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; POWER INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; REMOTE CONTROL; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

DISTRIBUTED MICRO MOTION SYSTEM; INDUCTIVE COUPLING; WIRELESS MICROROBOT; WIRELESS POWERING;

ELECTROSTATIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 33947401487     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2006.886245     Document Type: Article

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