A novel actuator with adjustable stiffness (AwAS)

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4201-4206

  Jafari, Amir ^a   Tsagarakis, Nikos G ^a   Vanderborght, Bram ^a,b   Caldwell, Darwin G ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; ELASTIC ELEMENT; EQUILIBRIUM POSITIONS; EXISTING SYSTEMS; LINEAR DRIVES; MOTOR CONTROL; TWO-MOTOR;

ACTUATORS; ELASTICITY; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MACHINE DESIGN; STIFFNESS;

POSITION CONTROL;

EID: 78651520756     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5648902     Document Type: Conference Paper

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