Validating usability of ionomeric polymer-metal composite actuators for real world applications

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 5441-5446

  Anton, Mart ^a   Kruusmaa, Maarja ^a   Aabloo, Alvo ^a   Punning, Andres ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Electroactive polymers; Inverted pendulum control; IPMC; Soft actuators

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; PENDULUMS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

ELECTROACTIVE POLYMERS; INVERTED PENDULUM CONTROL; IONOMERIC POLYMER METAL COMPOSITES (IPMC); SOFT ACTUATORS;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 34250640770     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.282174     Document Type: Conference Paper

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