Modeling of hybrid bio-mechanical mechanism for nanorobotic propulsion

ICARA 2009 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 83-86

  Adtani, Chhavi ^a   Das, Adwitiya ^a   Sharma, N N ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Bio mechanical Actuation; DNA; Nanopropellers; Nanorobots

Indexed keywords

BIO-MECHANICAL ACTUATION; LIQUID MEDIUM; MECHANICAL ACTUATORS; MECHANICAL MECHANISMS; NANOPROPELLERS; NANOROBOTS; THRUST FORCES;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DNA; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ROBOTS;

NANOROBOTICS;

EID: 66149180672     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICARA.2000.4803927     Document Type: Conference Paper

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