*Correspondence: Heung Soo Kim, Department of Mechanical, Robotics and Energy Engineering, Dongguk University, 30 Pil-Dong 1-ga, Jung-Gu, Seoul 100-715, South Korea e-mail: [email protected] Cellulose electro-active paper (EAPap) is an attractive material of electro-active polymers family due to its smart characteristics. EAPap is thin cellulose film coated with metal electrodes on both sides. I...

Creep can be dangerous for electromechanical, electronic and electrical connections, networks and devices. Recently, the metal matrix composites (MMC’s) are generally used for designing the electromechanical and electrical systems and devices due to their advantages. Therefore, analysis of the creep behavior is necessary and important for safe designing the fibrous composite devices. For achiev...

Biorobotics is a promising new area of research at the interface between biology and robotics. Robots can either be used as physical models of biological systems or be directly inspired by biological studies. There has been a great deal of recent progress in biorobotic studies of locomotion, orientation, and vertebrate arm control. Abbreviations DOF – degrees of freedom; MEMS – micro-electromec...

MEMS (Micro-Electromechanical Systems) is an area of research and applications that is becoming increasingly popular. It's mainly concerned with integrating micro-mechanical transducers with micro-electronic circuits on common substrates, traditionally silicon, through micro-fabrication. Instead of traditionally having the transducer and the communicating (or control) circuit as two separate en...

This report deals with the field of micro-electromechanical systems, or MEMS. MEMS encompass the process-based technologies used to fabricate tiny integrated devices and/or systems that integrate functionalities from different physical domains into one device. Such devices are fabricated using a wide range of technologies, having in common the ability to create structures with microand even nan...

Micro bearing systems for Micro Electromechanical Systems (MEMS) have drawn attention for several decades as critical components for micro rotating machinery. Ideally, frictionless bearings are needed, and in practice, micro gas bearings approach the ideal. Typically, bearings function as a separate component, assembled onto sliding counterparts. However, in micro scale devices, assembly proced...