Reconfigurable multi-component sensors built from MEMS payloads carried by micro-robots

2010 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium, SAS 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 15-19

  Cho, Jung H ^a   Kothare, Mayuresh ^a   Arnold, Mark G ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

MEMS; Reconfigurable micro robot; SDA; Sensor

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL COMMUNICATION; LOGIC STRUCTURES; MEMS SENSORS; MICRO PUMP; MICRO REACTOR; MICRO ROBOTS; MULTICOMPONENTS; PHYSICAL MOTION; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC ARRAY; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABLE LOGIC; SDA; SENSOR CONFIGURATIONS; TARGET LOCATION;

COMMUNICATION; DOCKING; LOCATION; SENSORS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 77952399833     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SAS.2010.5439379     Document Type: Conference Paper

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