Design of an articulated robotic leg with nonlinear series elastic actuation

Mobile Robotics: Solutions and Challenges - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, CLAWAR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 645-652

  Hutter, Marco ^a   David Remy, C ^a   Siegwart, Roland ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION SPRINGS; EFFECTIVE DAMPING; ENERGY RECOVERY; INERTIAL EFFECT; NON-LINEAR SPRINGS; PERIODIC ENERGY; RUNNING ROBOTS; SERIES ELASTIC ACTUATIONS;

CABLES; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MOBILE ROBOTS; PULLEYS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84885674477     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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