Design and fabrication of the Harvard ambulatory micro-robot

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Volumn 70, Issue STAR, 2011, Pages 715-730

  Baisch, Andrew T ^a   Wood, Robert J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICULATED STRUCTURES; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; GAIT PATTERN; HARVARD; HEXAPOD ROBOTS; MICRO ROBOTS; SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY ACTUATORS; SMART COMPOSITES; THIN FOIL;

FABRICATION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 79958013747     PISSN: 16107438     EISSN: 1610742X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19457-3_42     Document Type: Conference Paper

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