Design and analysis of a novel compact compliant actuator with variable impedance

2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2012 - Conference Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1188-1193

  Yu, Haoyong ^a   Huang, Sunan ^a   Chen, Gong ^a   Toh, Siew Lok ^a   Cruz, Manolo Sta ^b   Ghorbel, Yessine ^c   Zhu, Chi ^d   Yin, Yuehong ^e  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Hope First Response Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^d MAEBASHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Force Control; Human Friendly Robots; Neurorehabilitation; Series Elastic Actuator; Variable Impedance

Indexed keywords

HUMAN-FRIENDLY ROBOTS; MODELING AND ANALYSIS; NEUROREHABILITATION; PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS; REHABILITATION ROBOT; ROBOTICS APPLICATIONS; SERIES ELASTIC ACTUATORS; VARIABLE IMPEDANCE;

BALL SCREWS; BIOMIMETICS; DESIGN; FORCE CONTROL; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; ROBOTICS;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 84876496703     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6491131     Document Type: Conference Paper

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