Development of a rajiform swimming robot using ionic polymer artificial muscles

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1861-1866

  Takagi, Kentaro ^a   Yamamura, Masanori ^b   Luo, Zhi Wei ^a,c   Onishi, Masaki ^a,d   Hirano, Shinya ^a   Asaka, Kinji ^a,d   Hayakawa, Yoshikazu ^a,b  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; INTELLIGENT MATERIALS; MICROCONTROLLERS; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES; AUTONOMOUS OPERATION; TRAVELING WAVE CONTROL; UNDERWATER ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 34250622395     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.282308     Document Type: Conference Paper

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