Demonstrating the safety and performance of a velocity sourced series elastic actuator

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3642-3647

  Wyeth, Gordon ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; DC MOTORS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; ROBOTICS;

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; SERIES ELASTIC ACTUATOR;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 51649126809     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543769     Document Type: Conference Paper

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