Antagonistic variable stiffness elements

Mechanism and Machine Theory

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1746-1758

  Azadi, Mojtaba ^a   Behzadipour, Saeed ^a   Faulkner, Garry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antagonistic; Cable driven mechanism; Parallel mechanism; Prestressed mechanism; Semi active stiffness; Stiffness; Vibration

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISTIC; CABLE-DRIVEN MECHANISM; PARALLEL MECHANISM; PRESTRESSED MECHANISM; SEMI-ACTIVE STIFFNESS; VIBRATION;

CABLES; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; MECHANISMS;

STIFFNESS;

EID: 67349281762     PISSN: 0094114X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmachtheory.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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