Design of soft robotic actuators using fluid-filled fiber-reinforced elastomeric enclosures in parallel combinations

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4264-4269

  Bishop Moser, Joshua ^a   Krishnan, Girish ^a   Kim, Charles ^b   Kota, Sridhar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED MOTIONS; FIBER REINFORCED; FLUID-FILLED; HUMAN INTERACTIONS; MOTION DIRECTION; MOTION PATTERN; MOVING MASS; PARALLEL COMBINATION; PRELIMINARY DESIGN; ROBOTIC ACTUATORS; SOFT ROBOT; TRIANGULAR CONFIGURATION;

ENCLOSURES; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; TIME AND MOTION STUDY;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 84872282399     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2012.6385966     Document Type: Conference Paper

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