Principle of a submerged freeze gripper for microassembly

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 897-902

  López Walle, Beatriz ^a   Gauthier, Michaël ^a   Chaillet, Nicolas ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Ice gripper; Micromanipulation; Peltier effect

Indexed keywords

CURING; DRYING; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; ICE; ICE CONTROL; PLANNING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

AQUEOUS MEDIUM; CAPILLARY FORCES; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; CONTACT FORCES; CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION; DRY CONDITIONS; HYDRODYNAMIC FORCING; ICE GRIPPER; LIQUID MEDIUMS; MICRO ASSEMBLIES; MICRO GRIPPERS; MICRO MANIPULATIONS; MICRO-OBJECTS; MICROMANIPULATION; PELTIER EFFECT; SURFACE FORCING;

GRIPPERS;

EID: 50649107682     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2008.924944     Document Type: Article

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