Titlebook: Distributed Manipulation; Karl F. Böhringer,Howie Choset Book 2000 Springer Science+Business Media New York 2000 CMOS.actuator.algorithms.

CROAK

Building a Universal Planar Manipulator,by minimalism we look at a complementary question: can a device with few degrees of actuation freedom be used to flexibly manipulate a large number of parts? In previous publications we have shown that a single horizontally-vibrating plate is just such a device. This suggests that actuator count can

Agility

Distributed Agent Programming in the Architecture For Agile Assembly,of cooperating, modular, and robust robotic agents. The programs for these agents operate in a completely distributed fashion and must efficiently specify precision cooperative behavior. To allow this, the structure of agent programs is carefully designed to enable the automatic encapsulation of the

Heart-Attack

CMOS Integrated Organic Ciliary Actuator Arrays For General-Purpose Micromanipulation Tasks,h having four orthogonally oriented actuators in an overall die size of 9.4mm × 9.4mm. The polyimide based actuators were fabricated directly above the selection and drive circuitry. Selection and activation of actuators in this array shows that integration was successful..The array was programmed t

excrete

Distributed Actuation Devices Using Soft Gel Actuators,se (> 100 Hz), softness (. = 2.2 × 10. Pa), and its ability to function under wet conditions. This paper introduces distributed actuation devices using the ICPF actuators. EFD is an element which drives objects by elliptic motion. A system with a number of EFD cilia which cooperatively drive or tran