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SIMPAR
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
Compliant Robot Actuation by Feedforward Controlled Emulated Spring Stiffness
Abstract. Existing legged robots lack energy-efficiency, performance and adaptivity when confronted with situations that animals cope with on a routine basis. Bridging the gap bet...
Katayon Radkhah, Stefan Kurowski, Thomas Lens, Osk...
ISER
1995
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Stiffness Isn't Everything
Most robot designers make the mechanical interface between an actuator and its load as stiff as possible[9][10]. This makes sense in traditional position-controlled systems, becau...
Gill A. Pratt, Matthew M. Williamson, Peter Dilwor...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Design and Development of the Long-Jumping "Grillo" Mini Robot
Abstract— This paper describes the design of a fast longjumping robot conceived to move in unstructured environments through simple feed-forward control laws. Despite the apparen...
Umberto Scarfogliero, Cesare Stefanini, Paolo Dari...