Pressure control valve for McKibben artificial muscle actuators with miniaturized unconstrained pneumatic on/off valves

IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1383-1388

  Jien, Sumadi ^a   Hirai, Shinichi ^a   Ogawa, Yoichiro ^a   Ito, Masahiko ^a   Honda, Kenshin ^b  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Toray Engineering Co   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; AUTONOMOUS ROBOT; CONTROL ACCURACY; CONTROL VALVES; HUMAN ASSISTANCE; LONG TUBES; MCKIBBEN ACTUATORS; MCKIBBEN ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES; ON/OFF VALVES; PRESSURE CONTROL VALVES; PRESSURE LEVEL; PRESSURE OSCILLATION; PRESSURE TRACKING; ROBOTIC APPLICATIONS; SAFE HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION; SERVO DRIVES; WAVE FORMS; WEARABLE ROBOTS;

ACTUATORS; ALGORITHMS; ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MECHATRONICS; MUSCLE; PRESSURE CONTROL; ROBOTS; SAFETY VALVES;

INTELLIGENT MECHATRONICS;

EID: 70350468704     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AIM.2009.5229882     Document Type: Conference Paper

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