Flagellar swimming for medical micro robots: Theory, experiments and application

Proceedings of the 2nd Biennial IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 258-263

  Kósa, Gábor ^a   Jakab, Péter ^b,c   Hata, Nobuhiko ^b,c   Jólesz, Ferenc ^b,c   Neubach, Zipi ^d   Shoham, Moshe ^d   Zaaroor, Menashe ^e   Székely, Gábor ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Division of MRI   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^e RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; BACKWARD SWIMMINGS; MICRO ROBOTS; MICRO-ORGANISMS; TAIL CONFIGURATIONS; VENTRICULAR SYSTEMS;

MOTION CONTROL; ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 63049099861     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIOROB.2008.4762812     Document Type: Conference Paper

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