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Friction based locomotion module for mobile MEMS robots

Driesen, Walter
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Rida, Amar
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Breguet, Jean-Marc  
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2007
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Proceedings of the
Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2007 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

The “Modulated Friction Inertial Drive (MFID) principle” is presented as a locomotion solution for mmsize micro robots dealing with both size constraints and limitations in terms of power consumption. Based on one of the configurations of this locomotion principle a locomotion module (10 × 10 mm2) with two degrees of freedom (X,ThetaZ) has been developed. It consists of two horizontally vibrating masses actuated by electrostatic comb drives and fabricated by DRIE on a SOI wafer. The design as well as calculated and measured actuator displacements and resonance frequencies are presented. First locomotion experiments have shown a linear velocity of 0.207 mm/s for a driving voltage of 30 Vp2p and a power consumption of only 16.6 μW.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/IROS.2007.4399321
Web of Science ID

WOS:000254073202150

Author(s)
Driesen, Walter
Rida, Amar
Breguet, Jean-Marc  
Clavel, Reymond  
Date Issued

2007

Published in
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Proceedings of the
Start page

3815

End page

3820

Subjects

HPR-MR

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robotics

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microengineering

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MFID

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locomotion

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mobile micro robot

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MEMS

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2007 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

San Diego, CA

29 October - 2 November 2007

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