A pneumatic muscle actuator driven manipulator for nuclear waste retrieval

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 23-36

  Caldwell, D G ^a   Tsagarakis, N ^a   Medrano Cerda, G A ^a   Schofield, J ^b   Brown, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SELLAFIELD LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actuators; Nuclear application; Robotics; Tele operation

Indexed keywords

ACTUATOR; AUTOMATION; NUCLEAR APPLICATION; ROBOTICS;

ACTUATORS; PNEUMATIC CONTROL; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; REMOTE CONTROL; SAFE HANDLING;

NUCLEAR WASTE RETRIEVAL; PNEUMATIC MUSCLE ACTUATORS; TELE OPERATION;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 0034745535     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0661(00)00073-3     Document Type: Article

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