Power electronics design choice for piezoelectric microrobots

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1322-1328

  Steltz, E ^a   Seeman, M ^a   Avadhanula, S ^a   Fearing, R S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous; Charge pump; High voltage; Microrobots; Piezoelectric

Indexed keywords

CHARGE PUMPS; HIGH DRIVE VOLTAGES; HIGH FORCE PRODUCTION; MICROROBOTS; VOLTAGE GENERATION;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; OPTIMIZATION; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS; POWER ELECTRONICS; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 34250646970     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.281897     Document Type: Conference Paper

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