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ICRA
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2008
IEEE
Abstract— Safety is a critical characteristic for robots designed to operate in human environments. This paper presents the concept of hybrid actuation for the development of hum...
IJRR
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
The increasing demand for physical interaction between humans and robots has led to the development of robots that guarantee safe behavior when human contact occurs. However, atta...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
– This paper presents two actuation compensation methods for a snake-like robot implementing multi flexible backbones and actuation redundancy. This snake-like robot is designed ...
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2007
IEEE
This paper presents a new actuation approach which combines the use of brakes, springs and mini motors to produce a safer and more energy efficient way to drive haptic devices. Th...
IROS
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
Abstract— Piezoelectric actuators are advantageous for microrobots due to their light weight, high bandwidth, high force production, low power consumption, and simplicity of inte...