Critical review of current trends in shape memory alloy actuators for intelligent robots

Industrial Robot

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 285-294

  Sreekumar, M ^a   Nagarajan, T ^a   Singaperumal, M ^a   Zoppi, M ^b   Molfino, R ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Medical equipment; Robotics

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FEEDBACK; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

BIAS FORCE; MECHATRONIC ASPECTS; SENSING FUNCTIONS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 34250838268     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439910710749609     Document Type: Article

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