Design of an artificial muscle continuum robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 4742-4746

  Pritts, Michael B ^a   Rahn, Christopher D ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

McKibben actuator; Soft manipulator

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; MANIPULATORS; MUSCLE; PLASTICITY; POSITION CONTROL; PRESSURIZATION; ROTATION; TORQUE CONTROL;

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES; INTRINSIC ROBOTS; MCKIBBEN ACTUATORS; SOFT MANIPULATORS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 3042647509     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2004.1302467     Document Type: Conference Paper

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