An actuator with physically variable stiffness for highly dynamic legged locomotion

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 4662-4667

  Hurst, Jonathan W ^a   Chestnutt, Joel E ^a   Rizzi, Alfred A ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRIC MOTORS; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; FREQUENCIES; KINETIC ENERGY; MACHINE DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS; MOBILE ROBOTS; POWER ELECTRONICS; ROBOTICS; STIFFNESS;

ELECTRIC GEARMOTORS; POWER SOURCES; SPRING ENERGY; SPRING LOAD INVERTED PENDULUMS (SLIP);

BIPED LOCOMOTION;

EID: 3042645496     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1302453     Document Type: Conference Paper

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