Digital fabrication of "smart" structures and mechanisms - Creative applications in art and design

International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 185-188

  Walters, Peter ^a,b   McGoran, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b BRISTOL ROBOTICS LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D PRINTING; ACTIVE STRUCTURES; DESIGN FEATURES; DIGITAL FABRICATION; INTERNAL CHANNEL; PHYSICAL COMPUTING; RANGE OF MOTIONS; SMA ACTUATORS; SOFT ELASTOMERS;

EMBEDDED SOFTWARE; MICROACTUATORS; ROBOTICS;

DESIGN;

EID: 84856878066     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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