Multi-material compliant mechanisms for mobile millirobots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3169-3174

  Vogtmann, Dana E ^a   Gupta, Satyandra K ^a   Bergbreiter, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AT-SPEED; BENDING CYCLES; ELASTOMERIC MATERIALS; JOINT AREA; LASER CUTTING; LONG LIFETIME; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MAXIMUM SPEED; MINIMUM FEATURE SIZES; POTENTIAL MATERIALS; RIGID MATERIAL; SMALL SCALE;

COMPLIANT MECHANISMS; MATERIALS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MECHANISMS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84871673316     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5980543     Document Type: Conference Paper

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