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IROS
2007
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Design and evaluation of a gravity compensation mechanism for a humanoid robot
— Performance of a human size humanoid robot is strictly limited by performance of the motor. The progress of a motor has not been remarkable compared with the progress of electr...
Satoru Shirata, Atsushi Konno, Masaru Uchiyama
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Design of a 3D gravity balanced orthosis for upper limb
— This paper describes the design of a gravity balanced spatial orthosis. Previous works introduced planar mechanisms only and neglected friction. They relied on counterweight or...
Rani Rizk, Sébastien Krut, Etienne Dombre
ROBIO
2006
IEEE
139views Robotics» more  ROBIO 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
Biologically Inspired Reflex Based Stabilization Control of a Humanoid Robot with Artificial SMA Muscles
- Suddenly occurring collisions or unintentional motions represent a high safety risk in robotics and must be prevented. Especially for humanoid robots, the influence of disturbanc...
Robert Kratz, Sebastian Klug, Maximilian Stelzer, ...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
151views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Design and control of motion compensation cardiac catheters
Robotic cardiac catheters have the potential to revolutionize heart surgery by extending minimally invasive techniques to complex surgical repairs inside the heart. However, cathet...
Samuel B. Kesner, Robert D. Howe
ISER
2004
Springer
142views Robotics» more  ISER 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Design and Modeling of a Selective-Actuation XYZ Flexure Parallel Mechanism
This paper presents the design of a selective-actuation flexure parallel mechanism that can provide three independent translational motions. The mechanism can be used as an ultra p...
Huy-Hoang Pham, I-Ming Chen