ARRIpede: A stick-slip micro crawler/conveyor robot constructed via 2 1/2D MEMS assembly

2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 34-40

  Murthy, Rakesh ^a   Das, Aditya ^a   Popa, Dan O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATION FORCE; CARRYING CAPACITY; CRAWLING MICROROBOT; DIE STACKING; ELECTRO-THERMAL ACTUATORS; GAIT SEQUENCES; IN-PLANE; LINEAR VELOCITY; MEMS ASSEMBLY; MICRO ASSEMBLY; MICRO ROBOTS; POWER CONSUMPTION; ROBOT DESIGNS; SIMULATION MODEL; SMALL ROBOTS; STICK-SLIP; TARGET VOLUMES;

DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; DIES; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; ELECTROSTATIC ACTUATORS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; SLIP FORMING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 69549095962     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2008.4651181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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