Constraint-based equilibrium and stiffness control of variable stiffness actuators

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5554-5560

  Howard, Matthew ^a   Braun, David J ^a   Vijayakumar, Sethu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMORPHIC; CONSTRAINT-BASED; EQUILIBRIUM POSITIONS; HUMAN BEHAVIOURS; LOCAL OPTIMAL; MECHANICAL DESIGN; RESEARCH EFFORTS; STIFFNESS ACTUATORS; STIFFNESS CONTROL; TASK SPACE; UNIFIED CONTROL; VARIABLE STIFFNESS; VARIABLE STIFFNESS DEVICES;

ACTUATORS; ANALOG DIFFERENTIAL ANALYZERS; STIFFNESS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84861158180     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5979776     Document Type: Conference Paper

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