Bacteria integrated swimming microrobots

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4850 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 154-163

  Behkam, Bahareh ^a   Sitti, Metin ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria flagellar propulsion; Distributed systems; Microrobotics; Miniature mobile robots; Swimming microrobots

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DETECTION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; ETHYLENEDIAMINETETRAACETIC ACID; METAL IONS; MOTION CONTROL; MUTAGENESIS; PROPULSION; ROBOTS;

BIOLOGICAL MICROORGANISMS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; MICRO ROBOTICS; MINIATURE MOBILE ROBOTS; RECONFIGURABLE SYSTEMS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SWIMMING MICROROBOTS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

BACTERIA;

EID: 37149004571     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77296-5_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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