Pneumatic balloon actuator with tunable bending points

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)

Volumn 2015-February, Issue February, 2015, Pages 18-21

  Zheng, Lanying ^a   Yoshida, Shotaro ^a   Morimoto, Yuya ^a,b   Onoe, Hiroaki ^a,b   Takeuchi, Shoji ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; MELTING POINT; MEMS; PNEUMATIC CONTROL EQUIPMENT; PNEUMATICS;

ACTUATION MECHANISM; BENDING POINTS; FLEXIBLE ACTUATOR; LOW MELTING POINT ALLOY; PNEUMATIC BALLOON; SOFT ROBOTICS;

PNEUMATIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 84931066043     PISSN: 10846999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMSYS.2015.7050875     Document Type: Conference Paper

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