Minimizing air consumption of pneumatic actuators in mobile robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 3634-3639

  Granosik, Grzegorz ^a,b   Borenstein, Johann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Compliant; Energy efficiency; Mobile robots; Nonlinear systems; Pneumatics

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; PNEUMATIC CONTROL EQUIPMENT; POSITION CONTROL; PROPORTIONAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; STIFFNESS;

AIR CONSUMPTION; PNEUMATIC ACTUATORS; ROBOTIC JOINTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 3042595952     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1308820     Document Type: Conference Paper

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