The design of the lower body of the compliant humanoid robot "cCub"

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2035-2040

  Tsagarakis, Nikos G ^a   Li, Zhibin ^a   Saglia, Jody ^a   Caldwell, Darwin G ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; COMPACT UNIT; ENERGY EFFICIENT; EUROPEAN PROJECT; HUMANOID ROBOT; JOINT TORQUE SENSING; LEG MECHANISM; LOWER BODY; PASSIVE COMPLIANCE; RANGE OF MOTIONS; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; ROBOTIC PLATFORMS; SERIES ELASTIC ACTUATORS; TORQUE CAPABILITY; UNEVEN TERRAIN;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ROBOTICS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 84861615714     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5980130     Document Type: Conference Paper

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