Antagonistic and series elastic actuators: A comparative analysis on the energy consumption

2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 5678-5684

  Laffranchi, M ^a,b   Tsagarakis, N G ^a   Cannella, F ^a   Caldwell, D G ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATION SYSTEMS; AUTONOMOUS ROBOT; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY EFFICIENT; SECOND GROUP; SERIES ELASTIC ACTUATORS; THEORETICAL STUDY; VARIABLE STIFFNESS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; STIFFNESS;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 76249089020     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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