Integrated joint actuator for serpentine robots

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 473-481

  Granosik, Grzegorz ^a   Borenstein, Johann ^b  

^a LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Pneumatics; Position and stiffness control; Serpentine robots

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); PNEUMATICS; POSITION CONTROL; PROPORTIONAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; STIFFNESS; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS;

INTEGRATED JOINT ACTUATOR; SERPENTINE ROBOTS; STIFFNESS CONTROL;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 28044446549     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2005.856222     Document Type: Article

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