The mechanical design of the new lower body for the child humanoid robot 'iCub'

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4962-4968

  Tsagarakis, Nikos G ^a   Vanderborght, Bram ^a,b   Laffranchi, Matteo ^a   Caldwell, Darwin G ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN PROJECT; HUMANOID ROBOT; LATEST TECHNOLOGY; LOWER BODY; MECHANICAL DESIGN; RANGE OF MOTIONS; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; ROBOTIC PLATFORMS; TORQUE CAPABILITY;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MACHINE DESIGN;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 76249107629     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354498     Document Type: Conference Paper

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