Integration of the Control electronics for a mm 3- sized autonomous microrobot into a single chip

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3007-3012

  Casanova, R ^a   Dieguez, A ^a   Arbat, A ^a   Alonso, O ^a   Sanuy, A ^a   Canals, J ^a   Colomer, J ^a   Samitier, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLETE SYSTEM; CONTROL ELECTRONICS; CONTROL UNIT; MEASURE DISTANCE; MICROROBOTS; MOBILE MICROROBOTS; MOBILE PLATFORM; POWER SYSTEMS; SINGLE CHIPS;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POWER ELECTRONICS; ROBOTICS;

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS;

EID: 70350371286     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152611     Document Type: Conference Paper

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