Joint torque sensing for the upper-body of the iCub humanoid robot

9th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, HUMANOIDS09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 15-20

  Parmiggiani, Alberto ^a   Randazzo, Marco ^a   Natale, Lorenzo ^a   Metta, Giorgio ^a   Sandini, Giulio ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUATIONS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; FINITE ELEMENT; HUMANOID ROBOT; JOINT TORQUE CONTROL; JOINT TORQUE SENSING; JOINT TORQUES; MECHANICAL STRUCTURES; ROBOT ARMS; SENSOR GEOMETRIES; SHOULDER JOINTS; STRUCTURAL SIMULATIONS;

SENSORS; TORQUE; TORQUE CONTROL;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS;

EID: 77950583930     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICHR.2009.5379525     Document Type: Conference Paper

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