Development of Artificial Muscle Actuator Using Ionic Polymer with its Application to Biped Walking Robots

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5051, Issue , 2003, Pages 301-308

  Yamakita, M ^a,c,d   Kamamichi, N ^a   Kaneda, Y ^a   Asaka, K ^b,c   Luo, Z W ^c  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^d NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial Muscle Actuator; Biped Walking Robot; IPMC; Model Identification

Indexed keywords

BIPED LOCOMOTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDUCTIVE PLASTICS; HIP PROSTHESES; MOBILE ROBOTS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE ACTUATORS;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 0242694384     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.484290     Document Type: Conference Paper

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