Toward soft robots you can depend on

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 31-41

  Filippini, Roberto ^a   Sen, Soumen ^b   Bicchi, Antonio ^c  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b Centro E Piaggio   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

AA; Control; Dependability; FMEA; Joints; Mechanism; pHRI; Reliability; Robot sensing systems; Robots; Safety; Service robots; Springs; Steer ability; Torque; VSA

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BENCHMARKING; CONTROL SYSTEMS; FAULT DETECTION; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

AA; APPLICATIONS.; COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW; CONTROL; DEPENDABILITY; DESIGN APPROACHES; EFFECTIVE TRANSMISSION; FAULT-TOLERANT DESIGN; FMEA; INJURY RISKS; JOINTS; MECHANISM; PHRI; PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS; RELIABILITY; ROBOT ACTUATORS; ROBOT SENSING SYSTEMS; ROBOTIC STRUCTURES; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SAFETY; SAFETY ISSUES; SAFETY PROPERTIES; SAFETY-CRITICAL; SAFETY-RELATED SYSTEMS; SERVICE ROBOTS; SOFT ROBOTS; SPRINGS; STEER ABILITY; SUPERVISORY CONTROL; TORQUE; VSA; WORST-CASE ASSUMPTION;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 52949114568     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2008.927696     Document Type: Article

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