3 accepted papers
Linear Series Elastic Actuators exhibit a restricted design space. This inevitably leads to design trade-offs translating into robot performance limitations. These prevent robots from eventually reaching human comparable soft but also powerful physical interaction performance.This work presents a no…
This paper presents the mechatronic design of a robotic arm that is mounted on a ground rover and used to deploy and recover small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles. The arm and rover are part of a network of collaborative robotic agents aiming to enhance current rescue operations by supporting human o…
The increasing use of Variable Stiffness Actuators (VSAs) in robotic joints is helping robots to meet the demands of human-robot interaction, requiring high safety and adaptability. The key feature of a VSA is the ability to exploit internal elastic elements to obtain a variable output stiffness. Th…