The first launch of an autonomous thrust-driven microrobot using nanoporous energetic silicon

Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 198-205

  Churaman, Wayne A ^a   Currano, Luke J ^a   Morris, Christopher J ^a   Rajkowski, Jessica E ^b,c   Bergbreiter, Sarah ^b  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomy; microrobot; porous silicon

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMY; CHEMICAL ENERGY; COMMUNICATION MODULES; HYBRID INTEGRATION; LIGHTWEIGHT ARCHITECTURE; MICRO ROBOTS; MICRON SCALE; NANO-POROUS; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; RAPID RELEASE; ROBOTIC PLATFORMS;

ACTUATORS; DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; POROUS SILICON;

CONTROL THEORY;

EID: 84858449966     PISSN: 10577157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2011.2174414     Document Type: Article

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