Development of a compliance controller to reduce energy consumption for bipedal robots

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 419-434

  Vanderborght, Bram ^a,b   Verrelst, Björn ^a   Van Ham, Ronald ^a   Van Damme, Michaël ^a   Beyl, Pieter ^a   Lefeber, Dirk ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biped; Energy efficient walking; Pneumatic artificial muscle; Torque and compliance control

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS; STIFFNESS; TORQUE CONTROL;

BIPEDAL ROBOTS; COMPLIANCE CONTROLLERS; ENERGY EFFICIENT WALKING; PNEUMATIC ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES; TRAJECTORY GENERATORS;

CONTROL EQUIPMENT;

EID: 40249085610     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-008-9088-5     Document Type: Article

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