Characteristics evaluation of PVC gel actuators

2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2898-2903

  Ogawa, Naoki ^a   Hashimoto, Minoru ^a   Takasaki, Midori ^a   Hirai, Toshihiro ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; CONTRACTION RATE; DC FIELD; HUMAN MUSCLES; LARGE DEFORMATIONS; MESH ELECTRODES; OUTPUT FORCE; RESPONSE RATE; SINGLE LAYER; VINYL CHLORIDES;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; GELS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MUSCLE; PLASTIC PRODUCTS;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 76249127433     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354417     Document Type: Conference Paper

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