Power assist systems based on resonance of passive elements

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 4316-4321

  Uemura, Mitsunori ^a   Kanaoka, Katsuya ^a   Kawamura, Sadao ^a  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

BIOSIGNALS; INPUT MINIMIZATION; PASSIVE ELEMENTS;

POWER CONTROL;

EID: 34250679846     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.281965     Document Type: Conference Paper

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