Micro gripper driven by SDAs coupled to an amplification mechanism

TRANSDUCERS 2003 - 12th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, Digest of Technical Papers

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 280-283

  Millet, O ^a   Bernardoni, P ^b   Regnier S ^b   Bidaud P, ^b   Collard, D ^a   Buchaillot, L ^a  

^a INSTITUT D ELECTRONIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Actuators; Arm; Drives; Electrostatics; Fabrication; Finite element methods; Grippers; Kinematics; Nanobioscience; Robots

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BUCKLING; DRIVES; ELECTROSTATICS; FABRICATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRIPPERS; KINEMATICS; MACHINE DESIGN; MICROSYSTEMS; ROBOTS; TRANSDUCERS;

AMPLIFICATION MECHANISM; AMPLIFICATION RATIO; ARM; CRITICAL BUCKLING LOADS; EXCITATION FREQUENCY; EXPERIMENT PARAMETERS; NANOBIOSCIENCES; SCRATCH DRIVE ACTUATORS;

SOLID-STATE SENSORS;

EID: 84944731779     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SENSOR.2003.1215307     Document Type: Conference Paper

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