Kirigami design and fabrication for biomimetic robotics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9055, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Rossiter, Jonathan ^a   Sareh, Sina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

biomimetics; deployable structures; electroactive polymers; kirigami; kirimimetics; shape memory polymers

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BIOMIMETICS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; DESIGN; FABRICATION; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; ROBOTICS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

DEPLOYABLE STRUCTURE; ELECTRO-ACTIVE POLYMERS; KIRIGAMI; KIRIMIMETICS; SHAPE MEMORY POLYMERS;

BIOMIMETIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84902187490     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2045165     Document Type: Conference Paper

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