Pneumatic torsional actuators for inflatable robots

Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Sanan, Siddharth ^a   Lynn, Peter S ^b   Griffith, Saul T ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Otherlab   (United States)

^c Chief Scientist Otherlab Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TORSIONAL ACTUATORS;

EID: 84906967858     PISSN: 19424302     EISSN: 19424310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4026629     Document Type: Article

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