Development of intelligent McKibben actuator

2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 487-492

  Wakimoto, Shuichi ^a   Suzumori, Koichi ^a   Kanda, Takefumi ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Intelligent actuator; McKibben actuator; Soft mechanism; Soft sensor

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

DISPLACEMENT SENSOR; FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; INTELLIGENT ACTUATOR; MCKIBBEN ACTUATORS; POSITIVE FEATURES; SOFT MECHANISM; SOFT SENSORS;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 48649091656     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2005.1545315     Document Type: Conference Paper

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