Modeling and design of energy efficient variable stiffness actuators

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3273-3278

  Visser, L C ^a   Carloni, R ^a   Unal R ^a   Stramigioli, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENT; ENERGY REQUIREMENTS; MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORKS; VARIABLE STIFFNESS;

ACTUATORS; STIFFNESS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 77955797382     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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