Development and control of a compliant asymmetric antagonistic actuator for energy efficient mobility

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 1080-1091

  Roozing, Wesley ^a   Li, Zhibin ^a   Medrano Cerda, Gustavo A ^a   Caldwell, Darwin G ^a   Tsagarakis, Nikos G ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antagonistic actuator; Compliant actuator; Energy efficient actuation; Variable stiffness

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DIGITAL STORAGE; JOINTS (ANATOMY); STIFFNESS;

COMPLIANT ACTUATOR; DEVELOPMENT AND CONTROLS; ELECTRICAL ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY STORAGE CAPACITY; ENERGY-EFFICIENT ACTUATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; SINGLE DEGREE OF FREEDOMS; VARIABLE STIFFNESS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84963830630     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2015.2493359     Document Type: Article

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