Design and analysis of a robust, low-cost, highly articulated manipulator enabled by jamming of granular media

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4328-4333

  Cheng, Nadia G ^a   Lobovsky, Maxim B ^a   Keating, Steven J ^a   Setapen, Adam M ^a   Gero, Katy I ^a   Hosoi, Anette E ^a   Iagnemma, Karl D ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); GRANULAR MATERIALS; JAMMING; MACHINE DESIGN; REDUNDANT MANIPULATORS; ROBOTICS; STIFFNESS;

ARTICULATED MANIPULATORS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (DOFS); DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; HYPER-REDUNDANT MANIPULATOR; MANIPULATOR JOINTS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; ROBOTIC APPLICATIONS; TUNABLE STIFFNESS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84864480971     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225373     Document Type: Conference Paper

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