Design and control considerations for high-performance series elastic actuators

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1080-1091

  Paine, Nicholas ^a   Oh, Sehoon ^a   Sentis, Luis ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Actuator design; force control; series elastic actuators

Indexed keywords

COMPLIANT MECHANISMS; DESIGN; FORCE CONTROL;

ACTUATOR DESIGN; CONTROL CAPABILITIES; DESIGN AND CONTROL; DISTURBANCE OBSERVER; GENERIC MODELS; MECHANICAL POWER; SERIES ELASTIC ACTUATORS; SUPPORT MECHANISM;

MECHANICAL ACTUATORS;

EID: 84899408787     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2013.2270435     Document Type: Article

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