The pneumatic biped "lucy" actuated with pleated pneumatic artificial muscles

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 201-213

  Verrelst, Björn ^a   Van Ham, Ronald ^a   Vanderborght, Bram ^a   Daerden, Frank ^a   Lefeber, Dirk ^a   Vermeulen, Jimmy ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Legged robots; Passive active control; Pneumatic artificial muscle

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; AUTOMATION; BIPED LOCOMOTION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); MOBILE ROBOTS; MUSCLE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PNEUMATIC CONTROL;

LEGGED ROBOTS; PASSIVE/ACTIVE CONTROL; PNEUMATIC ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; TRAJECTORY CONTROL;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 17444368328     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-005-0726-x     Document Type: Article

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