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Towards a legged chip

  • University of Maryland, College Park
  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Abstract

We describe a substrate for a Legged Chip, a CMOS integrated circuit with built in actuation mechanisms for motion. We have designed and fabricated a custom integrated circuit using a commercial 0.5m CMOS technology which implements walking gait control. The circuit specifications and physical implementation have been designed to take into consideration the addition of thermal actuators through low-temperature MEMS surface processing on fabricated CMOS dies. External connections will be limited to two leads for providing power and ground. This work represents progress towards a fully autonomous mobile integrated circuit.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2011 IEEE International Symposium of Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2011
Pages2501-2504
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event2011 IEEE International Symposium of Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2011 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Duration: May 15 2011May 18 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
ISSN (Print)0271-4310

Conference

Conference2011 IEEE International Symposium of Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2011
Country/TerritoryBrazil
CityRio de Janeiro
Period05/15/1105/18/11

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