Fast bender actuators for fish-like aquatic robots

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6927, Issue , 2008, Pages

  McGovern, S T ^a,b   Spinks, G M ^a,b   Xi, B ^a,b   Alici, G ^a   Truong, V ^c   Wallace, G G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science   (Australia)

^c DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Actuator; Artificial muscle; Conducting polymer; Polypyrrole; Robotic fish; Strouhal

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; MOBILE ROBOTS; PHYSICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS; POLYPYRROLES;

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES; BACKWARD PROPULSION; ROBOTIC FISH; UNDERWATER MONITORING; VIDEO MAPPING;

PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 44349173015     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.784977     Document Type: Conference Paper

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