Design of a variable impedance differential actuator for wearable robotics applications

IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2010 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2639-2644

  Tagliamonte, Nevio Luigi ^a   Sergi, Fabrizio ^a   Carpino, Giorgio ^a   Accoto, Dino ^a   Guglielmelli, Eugenio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL LAWS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DIFFERENTIAL CONFIGURATION; DYNAMICAL BEHAVIORS; ELECTROMECHANICAL MODELS; EQUILIBRIUM POINT; EQUILIBRIUM POSITIONS; HARMONIC DRIVE; MECHANICAL IMPEDANCES; MECHANICAL STRUCTURES; OUTPUT IMPEDANCE; ROBOTICS APPLICATIONS; SAFE HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION; SERIES ELASTIC ACTUATORS; SINGLE COMPONENTS; SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS; TORSION SPRINGS; VARIABLE IMPEDANCE; WEARABLE ROBOTS;

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL THEORY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTICS;

POSITION CONTROL;

EID: 78651512203     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5649982     Document Type: Conference Paper

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