A wirelessly powered, biologically inspired ambulatory microrobot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2384-2391

  Karpelson, Michael ^a   Waters, Benjamin H ^b   Goldberg, Benjamin ^a   Mahoney, Brody ^b   Ozcan, Onur ^a   Baisch, Andrew ^a   Meyitang, Pierre Marie ^a   Smith, Joshua R ^b   Wood, Robert J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; ENERGY TRANSFER; INDUCTIVE POWER TRANSMISSION; POWER TRANSMISSION; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; CONTROL ELECTRONICS; CONVENTIONAL BATTERIES; MAGNETICALLY COUPLED RESONANCES; MECHANICAL STRUCTURES; WIRELESS POWER DELIVERY; WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION; WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS;

POWER CONTROL;

EID: 84929224968     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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