Magnetorheologically damped compliant foot for legged robotic application

Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Kostamo, Esa ^a   Focchi, Michele ^b   Guglielmino, Emanuele ^b   Kostamo, Jari ^a   Semini, Claudio ^b   Buchli, Jonas ^c   Pietola, Matti ^a   Caldwell, Darwin ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bouncing reduction; Damping; Energy dissipation; Magnetorheological; Robotic leg; Semiactive

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; DAMPING; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; REAL TIME CONTROL; ROBOTICS;

% REDUCTIONS; ACTIVE COMPLIANT; BOUNCING REDUCTION; DAMPING FORCES; MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL; MR DAMPERS (MAGNETO RHEOLOGICAL); PERFORMANCE; QUASI-STATIC; ROBOTIC LEG; SEMI-ACTIVE;

ENERGY DISSIPATION;

EID: 84888877505     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4025966     Document Type: Article

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