An in-pipe micro robot actuated by piezoelectric bimorphs

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2134-2142

  Liu, Pinkuan ^a   Wen, Zhijie ^a   Sun, Lining ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Impact drive mechanism (IDM); In pipe micro robot; Piezoelectric bimorph

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649959393     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-009-0257-5     Document Type: Article

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