Energy-efficient variable stiffness actuators

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 865-875

  Visser, Ludo C ^a   Carloni, Raffaella ^a   Stramigioli, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dynamics; kinematics; mechanism design; port based modeling; variable stiffness actuators

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT DESIGNS; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; ELASTIC ELEMENT; ENERGY EFFICIENT; KINEMATIC PROPERTIES; MECHANISM DESIGN; VARIABLE STIFFNESS;

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; ELASTICITY; KINEMATICS; MACHINE DESIGN; STIFFNESS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 80053641069     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2011.2150430     Document Type: Article

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