A compact compliant actuator (CompAct™) with variable physical damping

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 4644-4650

  Laffranchi, Matteo ^a   Tsagarakis, Nikos ^a   Caldwell, D G ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATION SYSTEMS; COMPACT UNIT; COMPLIANT ACTUATOR; CONTROL SCHEMES; PASSIVE COMPLIANCE; ROBOTICS SYSTEMS; ROTARY ACTUATOR; VERSATILE SYSTEM;

ACTUATORS; DAMPING; ENERGY TRANSFER;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84861615715     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5979915     Document Type: Conference Paper

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