Measuring the magnetic and hydrodynamic properties of assembled-MEMS mierorobots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1122-1127

  Kummer, Michael P ^a   Abbott, Jake J ^a   Vollmers, Karl ^a   Nelson, Bradley J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MEMS; PERMANENT MAGNETS; ROBOTICS;

MICROROBOTS; PRECISION SENSORS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 36349020846     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363135     Document Type: Conference Paper

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