Biologically inspired joint stiffness control

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 4508-4513

  Migliore, Shane A ^a   Brown, Edgar A ^a   DeWeerth, Stephen P ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antagonistic actuation; Field programmable gate array; Muscle mechanics; Nonlinear spring; Variable stiffness

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISTIC ACTUATION; MUSCLE MECHANICS; NONLINEAR SPRING; VARIABLE STIFFNESS;

ALGORITHMS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); ROBOTICS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

BIOMECHANICS;

EID: 33846165433     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570814     Document Type: Conference Paper

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