Development of a Real-Time Tunable Spring – Toward Independent Control of Position and Stiffness of Joints –

Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 27-33

  Umedachi, Takuya ^b   Yamada, Yasutake ^a   Ishiguro, Akio ^b  

^a MURATA MACHINERY LTD   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

antagonistic mechanism; artificial muscle; independent control of position and stiffness; real time tunable spring

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; POSITION CONTROL; ROBOTS;

ANTAGONISTIC MECHANISM; ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; CONTROL OF POSITIONS; INDEPENDENT CONTROL; INDEPENDENT CONTROL OF POSITION AND STIFFNESS; JOINT ANGLE; MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; PRECISE CONTROL; REAL-TIME TUNABLE SPRING; ROBOTS CONTROL;

STIFFNESS;

EID: 41749087027     PISSN: 09153942     EISSN: 18838049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20965/jrm.2007.p0027     Document Type: Article

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