Series viscoelastic actuators can match human force perception

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 853-860

  Parietti, Federico ^a   Baud Bovy, Gabriel ^b,c   Gatti, Elia ^c   Riener, Robert ^d,e   Guzzella, Lino ^d   Vallery, Heike ^d  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Actuators; creep; elasticity; force control; force measurement; haptic interfaces

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; CONTROL PERFORMANCE; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DRIFT-FREE; ELASTIC ELEMENT; FORCE ESTIMATION; FORCE PERCEPTION; FORCE SENSOR; HAPTIC DEVICES; HAPTIC INTERACTIONS; HIGH-PRECISION; HIGHER ORDER; INTERACTION FORCES; LOW MASS; NUMERICAL DIFFERENTIATION; PERCEPTION EXPERIMENT; SENSING PERFORMANCE; SERIES ELASTIC ACTUATORS; VISCO-ELASTIC MATERIAL; VISCOELASTIC BEHAVIORS;

ACTUATORS; CREEP; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); ELASTICITY; END EFFECTORS; FORCE CONTROL; FORCE MEASUREMENT; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS);

HAPTIC INTERFACES;

EID: 80052353023     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2011.2162076     Document Type: Article

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