Towards swarms of communication-enabled and intelligent sensotaxis-based bacterial microrobots capable of collective tasks in an Aqueous Medium

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2617-2622

  Martel, Sylvain ^a   André, Walder ^a   Mohammadi, Mahmood ^a   Lu, Zhao ^a   Felfoul, Ouajdi ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; BACTERIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; MICROELECTRONICS; MICROSTRUCTURE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

AQUEOUS MEDIUM; EMBEDDED INTELLIGENCE; FLAGELLATED BACTERIA; MAGNETOTACTIC BACTERIA; MICROELECTRONIC CIRCUITS; SENSORY INFORMATION; SPECIFIC SENSORS;

MICROROBOTS;

EID: 79959428969     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152588     Document Type: Conference Paper

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