Strength analysis of miniature folded right angle tetrahedron chain programmable matter

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2785-2790

  White, Paul J ^a   Posner, Michael L ^a   Yim, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY SHAPE; BONDING MECHANISM; EXTERNAL ENERGY; FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; MECHANICAL STRENGTH; POWER REQUIREMENT; PROGRAMMABLE MATTER; STIFFNESS MATRICES; STRENGTH ANALYSIS;

STIFFNESS MATRIX;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 77955839396     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509657     Document Type: Conference Paper

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