Initial prototype design and investigation of an undulating body by SMA

2006 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 472-477

  Low, K H ^a   Jie, Yang ^b   Pattathil, Anjan P ^a   Yonghua, Zhang ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS;

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLEXIBLE POLYURETHANES; FREQUENCY PARAMETERS; INITIAL DESIGN; PROTOTYPE DESIGNS; SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY WIRE; SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS(SMA);

SHAPE-MEMORY ALLOY;

EID: 45149101984     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COASE.2006.326927     Document Type: Conference Paper

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