Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers
The 52nd Annual Conference of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers
Session ID : 4S1-5
Conference information

Host: Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers

Development of a Human Safe, Lightweight Pliant Robot Arm by Pneumatic Muscles
*Yasunao Okazaki, Yuko Tsusaka, Mayumi Komatsu, Masaki Yamamoto
Author information
Keywords: Lightweight, Pliant, Robot arm, Pneumatic muscle actuator, Home robot, Intrinsic safety
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS FREE ACCESS

Details
Download citation RIS

(compatible with EndNote, Reference Manager, ProCite, RefWorks)

BIB TEX

(compatible with BibDesk, LaTeX)

Text
How to download citation
Contact us
Abstract
Since home robots intended for housekeeping and elderly care have inevitable contact to a humana, they have to be flexible and lightweight for their intrinsic safety. However conventional robots which use electric motors are hard and heavy, so they are not suitable for safe coexistence with a human. From this background, we have developed a lightweight pliant robot arm which has an intrinsically safe, flexible and lightweight structure by pneumatic muscles, and has sufficient positioning and force controling accuracy for daily domestic tasks.
Content from these authors
© 2008 The Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers
Previous article Next article
Favorites & Alerts

Recently viewed articles
Share this page
feedback
 Top