The McKibben muscle and its use in actuating robot-arms showing similarities with human arm behaviour

Industrial Robot

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 432-439

  Tondu, Bertrand ^a   Lopez, Pierre ^a  

^a INSA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; MUSCLE; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBOTIC ARMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); RUBBER; TUBES (COMPONENTS); ACTUATORS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FRICTION; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MODEL STRUCTURES; PERFORMANCE;

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES; ROBOT MECHANISM; RUBBER TUBES; ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; BICEPS TRICEPS SYSTEM; JOINT LITHENESS; STATIC BEHAVIOUR;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; ROBOTIC ARMS;

EID: 0031355530     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439919710192563     Document Type: Article

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