A compliant miniature parallel manipulator with shape memory alloy actuators

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 848-853

  Sreekumar, M ^a   Singaperumal, M ^a   Nagarajan, T ^a   Zoppi, M ^b   Molfino, R ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ALLOYS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES; PARALLEL MANIPULATORS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 51349156352     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIT.2006.372370     Document Type: Conference Paper

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