Underwater swimming micro robot using IPMC actuator

2006 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 249-254

  Guo, Shuxiang ^a,c   Ge, Yaming ^a,c   Li, Lingfei ^b   Liu, Sheng ^c  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHANGCHUN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

DSP; Fish like robot; IPMC actuator; Microrobot; Propulsion

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC PROPULSION; MOBILE ROBOTS;

BENDING MOTION; IONIC POLYMER METAL COMPOSITE (IPMC); MICRO ROBOTS; WIRELESS BIPED ROBOTS;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

EID: 34247216059     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMA.2006.257505     Document Type: Conference Paper

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