Robotic arm using flexible electrostatic film actuators

IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics

Volumn II, Issue , 2003, Pages 940-945

  Yamamoto, A ^a   Nishijima, T ^b   Higuchi, T ^a   Inaba, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Gifu Prefectural Research Institute of Manufacturing Information Technology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Belts; Electrodes; Electrostatic actuators; Feeds; Flexible printed circuits; Gears; Hydraulic actuators; Polyimides; Robots; Stators

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BELTS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROSTATICS; FEEDING; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; GEARS; HYDRAULIC ACTUATORS; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; LINEAR ACTUATORS; POLYIMIDES; PRINTED CIRCUITS; ROBOTIC ARMS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; STATORS;

ANTAGONISTIC MUSCLES; DIRECT TEACHINGS; DUAL EXCITATIONS; ELECTROSTATIC DRIVE; FLEXIBLE FILMS; FLEXIBLE PRINTED CIRCUIT; PARALLEL ELECTRODES; REDUCTION GEAR;

ELECTROSTATIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 36349005055     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISIE.2003.1267948     Document Type: Conference Paper

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