– Although below-knee prostheses have been commercially available for some time, today’s devices are completely passive, and consequently, their mechanical properties remain fi...
− In humanoid robot system, many human-body motions such as walking, running, jumping, etc require large power. To achieve a high power-to-weight ratio, this paper proposes a new...
Byung Rok So, Byung-Ju Yi, Whee Kuk Kim, Sang-Rok ...
An important problem in the control of locomotion of robots with multiple degrees of freedom (e.g., biomimetic robots) is to adapt the locomotor patterns to the properties of the e...
− A new type of actuator is presented where Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) wires are embedded within artificial “blood vessels.” Fluid flowing through vessels allows the SMA wires ...
— In this paper we present a novel framework for computing the steady turning motion of a robotic fish undergoing periodic body and/or tail deformation. Taking the turning radiu...
Qingsong Hu, Dawn R. Hedgepeth, Lihong Xu, Xiaobo ...