Wireless powering of ionic polymer metal composites toward hovering microswimmers

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 924-935

  Abdelnour, Karl ^a   Stinchcombe, Adam ^b   Porfiri, Maurizio ^a   Zhang, Jun ^b   Childress, Stephen ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Actuator; hovering; ionic polymer metal composite (IPMC); underwater robotics; wireless powering

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT COMPONENTS; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; HOVERING; IONIC POLYMER METAL COMPOSITES; LOW FREQUENCY; MAGNETICALLY COUPLED COILS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; POWER SOURCES; POWER TRANSFERS; POWERING SYSTEMS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; SYSTEM CAPABILITIES; UNDERWATER ROBOTICS; WIRED CONFIGURATION;

ACTUATORS; ORGANIC CONDUCTORS; POLYMERS; POWER ELECTRONICS;

FLOW VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84865394441     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2011.2148201     Document Type: Article

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