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GECCO
2006
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Evolutionary design of fault-tolerant analog control for a piezoelectric pipe-crawling robot
In this paper, a genetic algorithm (GA) is used to design faulttolerant analog controllers for a piezoelectric micro-robot. Firstorder and second-order functions are developed to ...
Geoffrey A. Hollinger, David A. Gwaltney
IROS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 5 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...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Milligram-scale high-voltage power electronics for piezoelectric microrobots
— Piezoelectric actuators can achieve high efficiency and power density in very small geometries, which shows promise for microrobotic applications, such as flapping-wing robot...
Michael Karpelson, Gu-Yeon Wei, Robert J. Wood