Design and fabrication of a bat-inspired flapping-flight platform using shape memory alloy muscles and joints

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Furst, Stephen J ^a   Bunget, George ^b   Seelecke, Stefan ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D PRINTING; BENDING ANGLE; BIO-INSPIRED; BIOLOGICAL ORGANISMS; ENGINEERING DESIGN; FLAPPING MOTION; FLEXIBLE JOINTS; MUSCLE WIRES; NORTH CAROLINA; REPRODUCIBILITIES; RESEARCH CENTER; RESISTANCE CHANGE; SELF-SENSING; SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY ACTUATORS; SMA WIRE;

ACTUATORS; BIOLOGY; BIOMIMETICS; DESIGN; INTELLIGENT MATERIALS; MUSCLE; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; WIRE;

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE;

EID: 84871549726     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/22/1/014011     Document Type: Article

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