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ISER
1997
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Mechanical Design and Control of a High-Bandwidth Shape Memory Alloy Tactile Display
: We have constructed a tactile shape display which can be used to convey small-scale shapes in teleoperation and virtual environments. A line of 10 pins spaced 2 mm on center are ...
Parris S. Wellman, William J. Peine, Gregg Favalor...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Control of Scalable Wet SMA Actuator Arrays
- This paper presents a new control method to drive an array of wet Shape Memory Alloy actuators utilizing a Matrix Manifold and Valve system (MMV). The MMV architecture allows a v...
L. Flemming, Stephen A. Mascaro
IROS
2008
IEEE
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13 years 12 months ago
RoACH: An autonomous 2.4g crawling hexapod robot
— This work presents the design, fabrication, and testing of a novel hexapedal walking millirobot using only two actuators. Fabricated from S2-Glass reinforced composites and fl...
Aaron M. Hoover, Erik Steltz, Ronald S. Fearing