Programmable springs: Developing actuators with programmable compliance for autonomous robots

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 728-734

  Bigge, Bill ^a   Harvey, Inman R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actuators; Autonomous robotics; Passive dynamics; Programmable compliance

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DAMPING; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS;

AUTONOMOUS ROBOTICS; PASSIVE DYNAMICS; PROGRAMMABLE COMPLIANCE;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 34548022836     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2007.05.013     Document Type: Article

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