Variable impedance actuators: Moving the robots of tomorrow

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 5454-5455

  Vanderborght, B ^f   Albu Schaeffer, A ^a   Bicchi, A ^b,e   Burdet, E ^d   Caldwell, D ^e   Carloni, R ^c   Catalano, M ^b,e   Ganesh, G ^d   Garabini, M ^b   Grebenstein, M ^a   Grioli, G ^b   Haddadin, S ^a   Jafari, A ^e   Laffranchi, M ^e   Lefeber, D ^f   Petit, F ^a   Stramigioli, S ^c   Tsagarakis, N ^e   Van Damme, M ^f   Van Ham, R ^f   Visser, L C ^c   Wolf, S ^a   more..

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^f VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX SOFTWARE; HUMAN MANIPULATION; INTRINSIC SAFETY; MOTION PERFORMANCE; SENSOR SYSTEMS; VARIABLE IMPEDANCE;

ACTUATORS; ALGORITHMS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84872343741     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2012.6385433     Document Type: Conference Paper

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