Advancing towards smart endoscopy with specific electronics to enable locomotion and focusing capabilities in a wireless endoscopic capsule robot

2009 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, BioCAS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 213-216

  Alonso, O ^a   Freixas, L ^a   Dieguez, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRUSHLESS DC; ENDOSCOPIC CAPSULE; FOCUSING SYSTEM; HIGH VOLTAGE CMOS; INNOVATIVE FUNCTIONS; LIQUID LENS; MICRO-MOTORS;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS;

EID: 77749320419     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIOCAS.2009.5372047     Document Type: Conference Paper

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