Application of artificial pneumatic rubber muscles to a human friendly robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 2188-2193

  Noritsugu, Toshiro ^a   Sasaki, Daisuke ^a   Takaiwa, Masahiro ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CRASHWORTHINESS; END EFFECTORS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; IMAGE SENSORS;

ARTIFICIAL PNEUMATIC RUBBER MUSCLES; HUMAN FRIENDLY ROBOT;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 0345308389     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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