Wireless swimming microrobots: Design and development of a 2 DoF magnetic-based system

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3455-3460

  Palagi, Stefano ^a,b   Lucarini, Gioia ^a   Pensabene, Virginia ^c   Levi, Alessandro ^a,b   Mazzolai, Barbara ^b   Menciassi, Arianna ^a,b   Beccai, Lucia ^b  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b Center for Micro BioRobotics at SSSA   (Italy)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; USER INTERFACES;

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED PLATFORM; MAGNETIC FIELD GENERATOR; MAGNETIC STEERING; PHYSICAL USER INTERFACES; SWIMMING MICROROBOTS; WORKING ENVIRONMENT;

MAGNETISM;

EID: 84864482750     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224969     Document Type: Conference Paper

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