The use of pneumatic artificial muscles in robot construction

Industrial Robot

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 11-19

  Palko, Anton ^a   Smrček, Juraj ^b  

^a HM Transtech sro   (Slovakia)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KO ICE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Muscles; Pneumatic equipment; Robotics

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; CONSTRUCTION PRINCIPLE; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; DRIVE SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FUNCTIONAL PARTS; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; NON-TRADITIONAL; ORIGINAL DESIGN; OUTPUT PARAMETERS; PARALLEL SETS; PNEUMATIC ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; ROBOT CONSTRUCTION; ROBOTIC TECHNOLOGIES; STANDARD MODULE; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; TRACTION FORCES; TRACTIVE POWER; UNDERPRESSURE; VOLUME CHANGE; WEIGHT RATIOS;

FLUORINE; MACHINE DESIGN; PNEUMATIC DRIVES; PNEUMATICS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); TRACTION (FRICTION);

MUSCLE;

EID: 79551487847     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439911111097805     Document Type: Article

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