A toolchain for the design and simulation of Foldable Programmable Matter

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2, Issue PARTS A AND B, 2010, Pages 1167-1176

  Gray, Steven R ^a   Seo, Jungwon ^a   White, Paul J ^a   Zeichner, Nathan J ^a   Yim, Mark ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION DETECTION; DESIGN AND SIMULATION; EMBEDDED ACTUATORS; FOLDING STRUCTURES; PROGRAMMABLE MATTER; RECONFIGURABLE ROBOT; SPECIFIC LOADING; STRENGTH ANALYSIS;

TOOLS; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 80055011539     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2010-28838     Document Type: Conference Paper

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