The development and control of a flexible-spine for a human-form robot

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 179-196

  Mizuuchi, Ikuo ^a   Yoshida, Shigenori ^a   Inaba, Masayuki ^a   Inoue, Hirochika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flexibility control; Flexible spine; Tendon driven system; Tension control; Whole body human form robot

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MICROCONTROLLERS; MOTION CONTROL; SENSORS; SILICONES; TORQUE; UNIVERSAL JOINTS;

FLEXIBILITY CONTROL; FLEXIBLE-SPINE; TENDON-DRIVE SYSTEM; TENSION CONTROL; WHOLE-BODY HUMAN-FORM ROBOT;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0037217572     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855303321165123     Document Type: Article

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