A modular compliant actuator for emerging high performance and fall-resilient humanoids

IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots

Volumn 2015-December, Issue , 2015, Pages 414-420

  Negrello, F ^a   Garabini, M ^b   Catalano, M G ^a   Malzahn, J ^a   Caldwell, D G ^a   Bicchi, A ^a,b   Tsagarakis, N G ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Actuators; Elasticity; Prototypes; Robot sensing systems; Robustness; Torque

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; ELASTICITY; ROBOTS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TORQUE;

ACTUATOR DESIGN; COMPLIANT ACTUATOR; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; ELASTIC TRANSMISSIONS; PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS; PROTOTYPES; REAL WORLD ENVIRONMENTS; ROBOT SENSING SYSTEM;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 84962229762     PISSN: 21640572     EISSN: 21640580     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2015.7363567     Document Type: Conference Paper

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