A biomimetic robotic jellyfish (Robojelly) actuated by shape memory alloy composite actuators

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Villanueva, Alex ^a   Smith, Colin ^a   Priya, Shashank ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURELIA AURITA; SCYPHOZOA;

ALLOY; BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; JELLYFISH; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SHIP; SWIMMING; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALLOYS; ANIMALS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELASTIC MODULUS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ROBOTICS; SCYPHOZOA; SHIPS; SWIMMING;

EID: 80052553185     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/6/3/036004     Document Type: Article

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