A novel mechanism for varying stiffness via changing transmission angle

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5076-5081

  Quy, Hung Vu ^a   Aryananda, Lijin ^a   Sheikh, Farrukh Iqbal ^a   Casanova, Flurin ^a   Pfeifer, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATED JOINT; CONTROL EFFORT; ENERGY EFFICIENT; ENERGY INPUTS; INDEPENDENT CONTROL; LEGGED LOCOMOTION; MECHANICAL MODEL; NOVEL DESIGN; OPERATIONAL RANGE; ROTARY ACTUATOR; ROTARY JOINT; TRANSMISSION ANGLE; VARIABLE STIFFNESS; VARYING STIFFNESS;

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTS; STIFFNESS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84869498769     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5980097     Document Type: Conference Paper

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