Micro but mighty : microrobots working in a macro world
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The vision of microrobots working together to move human scale objects has long been in the imaginations of science fiction writers, but in practical terms this vision has been hard to achieve. Friction scales unfavorably with size reduction, so the ability to provide shear ground reaction forces is severely limited at small scales. This thesis examines the use of small robots that employ controllable adhesives, i.e., adhesives for which the magnitude of the adhesive pressure can be modulated by varying a quantity such as the applied shear force. The applications include robots for horizontal and vertical surfaces. The thesis also addresses the implications for actuation that accompany a desire to use controllable adhesion in small robots. Finally, the thesis examines the characteristics of small robots, and their mode of locomotion, that make them more or less suited for working in teams to produce much larger forces than each robot can produce individually.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Christensen, David L |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Mechanical Engineering. |
| Primary advisor | Cutkosky, Mark R |
| Thesis advisor | Cutkosky, Mark R |
| Thesis advisor | Kenny, Thomas William |
| Thesis advisor | Prinz, F. B |
| Advisor | Kenny, Thomas William |
| Advisor | Prinz, F. B |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | David L. Christensen. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2016 by David Loyal Christensen
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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