Design and implementation of a bionic mimosa robot with delicate leaf swing behavior

Micromachines

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 42-62

  Chang, Chung Liang ^a   Shie, Jin Long ^a  

^a NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fuzzy logic; Micro controller; Mimosa robot; SMAs

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIONICS; CONTROLLERS; FUZZY LOGIC; ROBOTS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

CORE TECHNOLOGY; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; ENTERTAINMENT ROBOTS; FUZZY LOGIC CONTROL; INTELLIGENT CONTROL DEVICE; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PLASTIC MATERIALS; SMAS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 84921687034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2072666X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/mi6010042     Document Type: Article

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