The NEURARM: towards a platform for joint neuroscience experiments on human motion control theories

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1852-1857

  Vitiello, Nicola ^b   Cattin, Emanuele ^a,b   Roccella, Stefano ^b   Giovacchini, Francesco ^b   Vecchi, Fabrizio ^a,b   Carrozza, Maria Chiara ^a,b   Dario, Paolo ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Scuola Superiore di Studi   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agonistic antagonistic actuation; Anthropomorphic robot arm; Neuro robotics; Non linear spring

Indexed keywords

CYBERNETICS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SYSTEM THEORY;

AGONISTIC-ANTAGONISTIC ACTUATION; ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOT ARM; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; NEURO-ROBOTICS; NON-LINEAR SPRING;

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 51349096497     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2007.4399310     Document Type: Conference Paper

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