Design of self-contained biped walker with pneumatic actuators

Proceedings of the SICE Annual Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 393-397

  Takuma, Takashi ^a   Nakajima, Seigo ^a   Hosoda, Koh ^a,b   Asada, Minoru ^a,b  

^a Graduate School of Engineering   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

McKibben artificial muscle; Pneumatic actuator; Robot design; Self contained 2D biped walker

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; AIR; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; KINEMATICS; MUSCLE; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

MCKIBBEN ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES; PNEUMATIC ACTUATORS; ROBOT DESIGN; SELF-CONTAINED 2D BIPED WALKER;

BIPED LOCOMOTION;

EID: 12744269472     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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