A snake-like swimming robot using IPMC actuator and verification of doping effect

2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2035-2040

  Yamakita, Masaki ^a,c   Kamamichi, Norihiro ^a   Kozuki, Takahiro ^a   Asaka, Kinji ^b   Luo, Zhi Wei ^c  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Doping effect; EAP; IPMC; Snake like robot; Swimming robot

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS;

DOPING EFFECTS; IONIC POLYMER METAL COMPOSITES; IPMC; IPMC ACTUATORS; MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; SNAKE-LIKE ROBOT; SWIMMING MOTION; SWIMMING ROBOT;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 34247571746     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2005.1545485     Document Type: Conference Paper

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