Design and experimental results of a tripodic biomimetic microrobot with 5 DOFs

Proceedings of the World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 8378-8382

  Zhang, Wei ^a   Guo, Shuxiang ^a,b   Asaka, Kinji ^c  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biomimetic leg; ICPF actuator; Underwater microrobot

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; MICROACTUATORS; MOTION PLANNING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; POLYMER FILMS; SUBMARINES;

BIOMIMETIC LEGS; ICPF ACTUATORS; TRIPODIC BIOMIMETIC MICROROBOTS; UNDERWATER MICROROBOTS;

ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

EID: 34047234966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCICA.2006.1713611     Document Type: Conference Paper

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