Pneumatic muscle actuator technology a light weight power system for a humanoid robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 4_1998, Issue , 1998, Pages 3053-3058

  Caldwell, Darwin G ^a   Tsagarakis, N ^a   Badihi, D ^a   Medrano Cerda, G A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; INTEGRATION TESTING; MUSCLE; PNEUMATIC CONTROL; PNEUMATIC CONTROL EQUIPMENT; PNEUMATIC EQUIPMENT; ROBOTICS; ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACTUATORS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); HUMAN FORM MODELS; ROBOTIC ARMS; WEIGHT CONTROL;

ACTUATION SYSTEMS; CLOSE PROXIMITY; FORCE CAPABILITIES; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; HUMANOID ROBOT; INHERENT SAFETY; PNEUMATIC MUSCLE ACTUATORS; SOFT ACTUATION;

PNEUMATIC ACTUATORS; ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS;

PNEUMATIC MUSCLE ACTUATOR (PMA);

EID: 0031629231     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.1998.680894     Document Type: Conference Paper

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