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IROS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
—This paper presents a new method developed for the optimal design of microrobotic compliant mechanisms. It is based on a flexible building block method, called FlexIn, which use...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2005
IEEE
— Mechanisms utilizing rigid links and relatively small flexural joints are very suitable for fabrication at the meso scale. The Micromechanical Flying Insect (MFI) project at U...
CPHYSICS
2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
The motion of two- and three-dimensional self-propelled microscopic bodies immersed in a fluid medium is studied using molecular dynamics simulation. The advantage of the atomisti...
IROS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
— Piezoelectric bending actuators are an attractive option for driving microrobots due to their light weight, scalability, ease of integration and high bandwidth. However, the on...
IPPS
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2009
IEEE
—Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) is increasingly being applied to optimisation of multi-objective problems in engineering design and scientific investigation. This paper inves...