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IROS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
A 2 DoF Servomotor-based Module for Pipe Inspection Modular Micro-robots
— A 2 degrees of freedom module for pipe inspection modular micro-robots based on servomotors is presented in this article. A mechanical and electrical description of the module ...
Alberto Brunete, Ernesto Gambao, Jose Emilio Torre...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
OctoMag: An electromagnetic system for 5-DOF wireless micromanipulation
— We demonstrate five-degree-of-freedom (5-DOF) wireless magnetic control of a fully untethered microrobot (3DOF position, 2-DOF pointing orientation). The microrobot can move t...
Bradley Kratochvil, Michael P. Kummer, Jake J. Abb...
BIOSYSTEMS
2007
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13 years 9 months ago
Directional hearing in a silicon cricket
10 Phonotaxis is the ability to orient towards or away from sound sources. Crickets can locate conspecifics by phonotaxis to the calling (mating) song they produce, and can evade ...
Richard E. Reeve, André van Schaik, Craig T...
MOBISYS
2004
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Tracking Moving Devices with the Cricket Location System
We study the problem of tracking a moving device under two indoor location architectures: an active mobile architecture and a passive mobile architecture. In the former, the infra...
Adam Smith, Hari Balakrishnan, Michel Goraczko, Ni...
IROS
2006
IEEE
138views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
14 years 3 months ago
Power Electronics Design Choice for Piezoelectric Microrobots
Abstract— Piezoelectric actuators are advantageous for microrobots due to their light weight, high bandwidth, high force production, low power consumption, and simplicity of inte...
Erik Steltz, M. Seeman, Srinath Avadhanula, Ronald...