Optimality principles in variable stiffness control: The VSA hammer

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3770-3775

  Garabini, Manolo ^a   Passaglia, Andrea ^a   Belo, Felipe ^a   Salaris, Paolo ^a   Bicchi, Antonio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRACHISTOCHRONE PROBLEMS; DYNAMIC TASKS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; IMPACT FORCE; LINEAR SPRING; MECHANICAL IMPEDANCES; OPTIMAL CONTROL LAW; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; OPTIMALITY PRINCIPLE; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS; REALISTIC MODELING; SPRING STIFFNESS; THEORETICAL RESULT; VARIABLE STIFFNESS;

CONTROL; HAMMERS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; OPTIMIZATION; STIFFNESS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84455194571     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2011.6048555     Document Type: Conference Paper

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