Development of Robot Using Pneumatic Artificial Rubber Muscles to Operate Construction Machinery

Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 8-16

  Kawashima, Kenji ^a   Sasaki, Takahiro ^a   Miyata, Toshiyuki ^a   Nakamura, Naohiro ^b   Sekiguchi, Masato ^c   Kagawa, Toshiharu ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b OLYMPUS CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c NS Solutions Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Pneumatic; Remote Control; Robot Arm; Rubber Muscle

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DISASTERS; MUSCLE; PNEUMATIC ACTUATORS; PNEUMATIC EQUIPMENT; PNEUMATICS; REMOTE CONTROL; ROBOTIC ARMS;

6 DEGREE OF FREEDOM; CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY; DURING EXCAVATIONS; HUMANOID ROBOT ARM; PNEUMATIC ARTIFICIAL RUBBER MUSCLE; PNEUMATIC ROBOT; REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBOT ARMS; RUBBER MUSCLE; WORKERS';

RUBBER;

EID: 85168903130     PISSN: 09153942     EISSN: 18838049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20965/jrm.2004.p0008     Document Type: Article

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