Elias Saerens — accepted AI-conference papers

2020

Scaling laws for parallel motor-gearbox arrangements

Elias Saerens, Stein Crispel, Pablo López García, Vincent Ducastel, Jarl Beckers, Joris De Winter +4

IROS 2020poster

Research towards (compliant) actuators, especially redundant ones like the Series Parallel Elastic Actuator (SPEA), has led to the development of drive trains, which have demonstrated to increase efficiency, torque-to-mass-ratio, power-to-mass ratio, etc. In the field of robotics such drive trains c…

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2019

Novel Lockable and Stackable Compliant Actuation Unit for Modular +SPEA Actuators

Glenn Mathijssen, Raphaël Furnemónt, Elias Saerens, Manolo Garabini, Manuel Giuseppe Catalano, Dirk Lefeber +2

RA-L 2019

On compliant robotic systems, modularity is recently adopted for the ease of up- and downscaling and the possibility to downgrade the costs, by moving towards the combination of standard units instead of custom designs. However, modularity on the actuator level itself lacks more thorough evaluation.

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2017

Discrete binary muscle-inspired actuation with motor unit overpowering and binary control strategy

Glenn Mathijssen, Raphael Furnémont, Elias Saerens, Dirk Lefeber, Bram Vanderborght

IROS 2017poster

On novel actuator research in the field of cellular muscle-inspired actuators, skeletal muscles are often used as inspiration due to their modular and compact design and seemingly effortless control. Amongst others, the remaining challenges to tackle are robust designs, energy consumption minimizati…

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