A novel actuator with reconfigurable stiffness for a knee exoskeleton: Design and modeling

Advances in Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots I

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 411-421

  Karavas, Nikos C ^a   Tsagarakis, Nikos G ^a   Saglia, Jody ^a   Galdwell, Darwin G ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLIANT ACTUATOR; DESIGN AND MODELING; DESIGN SPECIFICATION; DISPLACEMENT PROFILES; HUMAN TASKS; MECHATRONIC DESIGN; MOTION CAPTURE; MOTION CYCLE; RECONFIGURABLE; SIMULATION DATA;

DESIGN; STIFFNESS;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 84874807373     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-4141-9_37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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