A Novel Fluidic Bellows Manipulator

Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 604-612

  Bertetto, Andrea Manuello ^a   Ruggiu, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

continuum robots; manipulators; pneumatics

Indexed keywords

BELLOWS; END EFFECTORS; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

CONTINUUM ROBOT; CONTINUUM STRUCTURES; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; FLEXIBLE BODIES; FORWARD KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL APPROXIMATES; PRISMATIC JOINT; REVOLUTE JOINTS; RIGID LINKS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 67650498634     PISSN: 09153942     EISSN: 18838049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20965/jrm.2004.p0604     Document Type: Article

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