Solar cell powering with integrated Global Positioning System for mm 3 size robots

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 5528-5533

  Boletis, A ^a   Driesen, W ^a   Breguet, J M ^a   Brunete, A ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

GPS; Micro robotics; Powering; Solar cell

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; ROBOTICS; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS;

LUMENS BEAMERS; MICROROBOTICS; MULTI-SEGMENT SOLAR CELLS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 34250615199     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.282191     Document Type: Conference Paper

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