Pneumatic actuators: A comparison of energy-to-mass ratio's

Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE 9th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 545-549

  Plettenburg, Dick H ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; ENERGY-TO-MASS RATIO; STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CYLINDER ACTUATORS;

NEUROMUSCULAR REHABILITATION; PISTONS; PNEUMATIC CONTROL; ROBOTICS;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 33745784834     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICORR.2005.1502022     Document Type: Conference Paper

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