Bidirectional antagonistic variable stiffness actuation: Analysis, design & implementation

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4189-4196

  Petit, Florian ^a   Chalon, Maxime ^a   Friedl, Werner ^a   Grebenstein, Markus ^a   Albu Schäffer, Alin ^a   Hirzinger, Gerd ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION CONTROL; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; ELASTIC ELEMENT; HUMAN-FRIENDLY; JOINT LOADS; OPERATING MODES; PRETENSIONED; ROBOT TECHNOLOGY; STIFFNESS VARIATIONS; VARIABLE STIFFNESS;

DESIGN; ROBOTS; STIFFNESS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 77955828914     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509267     Document Type: Conference Paper

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