A compact soft actuator unit for small scale human friendly robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4356-4362

  Tsagarakis, N G ^a   Laffranchi, Matteo ^a   Vanderborght, Bram ^a,b   Caldwell, D G ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ROBOTICS; SPRINGS (COMPONENTS);

CONTROL SCHEMES; EXPERIMENTAL TRIALS; HIGH INTEGRATION DENSITY; HUMAN-FRIENDLY ROBOTS; MULTI DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SOFT ACTUATORS; VIRTUAL IMPEDANCE;

SOCIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 85001658011     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152496     Document Type: Conference Paper

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