Air muscle controller design in the Distributed Macro-Mini (DM2) Actuation approach

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1822-1827

  Sardellitti, I ^a,b   Park, J ^a   Shin, D ^a   Khatib, O ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROBOTICS;

AIR MUSCLES; CONTROLLER DESIGNS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES;

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 51349135546     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2007.4399073     Document Type: Conference Paper

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