Low power control IC for efficient high-voltage piezoelectric driving in a flying robotic insect

IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Digest of Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 178-179

  Karpelson, Michael ^a   Wood, Robert J ^a   Wei, Gu Yeon ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

high voltage; low power; microrobotics; piezoelectric actuator; SOC

Indexed keywords

CMOS PROCESSS; DUAL CHANNEL; EFFICIENT CONTROL; FLAPPING-WING; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; HIGH VOLTAGE; HIGH-VOLTAGES; LOW POWER; MICRO ROBOTICS; MICROROBOTS; NORMAL OPERATIONS; POWER REQUIREMENT; SOC;

ALGORITHMS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INSECT CONTROL; PIEZOELECTRICITY; POWER CONTROL; POWER ELECTRONICS; ROBOTICS; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS); VLSI CIRCUITS;

PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 80052668563     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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4. M. Karpelson, et al., "Design and fabrication of ultralight high-voltage power circuits for flapping-wing robotic insects," to appear APEC 2011.
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