A crawling based locomotive mechanism using a Tiny Ultrasonic Linear Actuator (TULA)

39th International Symposium on Robotics, ISR 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 85-90

  Park, Hyunjun ^a   Kim, Byungkyu ^a   Park, Jong Oh ^b   Yoon, Seok Jin ^c  

^a Hankuk Aviation University   (South Korea)

^b Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^c Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATING FORCES; CONTINUOUS MOTIONS; HIGH VOLTAGE SUPPLY; LOCOMOTIVE MECHANISM; PIEZO ACTUATOR; PIEZOMATERIALS; SIMPLE STRUCTURES; SMALL DISPLACEMENT;

LINEAR ACTUATORS; ROBOTICS; ULTRASONIC TESTING;

LOCOMOTIVES;

EID: 84876781347     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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