An overview on principles for energy efficient robot locomotion

N Kashiri, A Abate, SJ Abram… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
Despite enhancements in the development of robotic systems, the energy economy of
today's robots lags far behind that of biological systems. This is in particular critical for …

[HTML][HTML] Natural motion for energy saving in robotic and mechatronic systems

L Scalera, I Palomba, E Wehrle, A Gasparetto… - Applied Sciences, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
Energy saving in robotic and mechatronic systems is becoming an evermore important topic
in both industry and academia. One strategy to reduce the energy consumption, especially …

Walk-man humanoid lower body design optimization for enhanced physical performance

F Negrello, M Garabini, MG Catalano… - … on Robotics and …, 2016‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The deployment of robots to assist in environments hostile for humans during emergency
scenarios require robots to demonstrate enhanced physical performance, that includes …

Clutched elastic actuators

M Plooij, W Wolfslag, M Wisse - IEEE/ASME transactions on …, 2017‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper identifies the class of actuators called clutched elastic actuators (CEAs). CEAs
use clutches to control the energy flow into springs. CEAs in exoskeletons, prostheses …

Mechanical design and analysis of light weight hip joint parallel elastic actuator for industrial exoskeleton

J Masood, J Ortiz, J Fernández… - 2016 6th IEEE …, 2016‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Industrial wearable exoskeletons can assist the workers during manual handling of loads at
manufacturing facilities. Today, one of their design challenges is to reduce weight so the …

Development and control of a compliant asymmetric antagonistic actuator for energy efficient mobility

W Roozing, Z Li, GA Medrano-Cerda… - IEEE/ASME …, 2015‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the development and control of a novel asymmetric antagonistic
actuation scheme characterized by large energy storage capacity that enables efficient …

Design optimisation and control of compliant actuation arrangements in articulated robots for improved energy efficiency

W Roozing, Z Li, DG Caldwell… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2016‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of energy efficient actuation represents one of the biggest challenges in
robotics research today. This letter presents the generalisation of design and control …

Design of a novel 3-dof leg with series and parallel compliant actuation for energy efficient articulated robots

W Roozing, Z Ren… - 2018 IEEE International …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents the development of a 3-DoF leg with series and parallel compliant
actuation. Series-elastic main actuators are combined with parallel high efficiency energy …

Can active impedance protect robots from landing impact?

H Dallali, P Kormushev, NG Tsagarakis… - 2014 IEEE-RAS …, 2014‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the effect of passive and active impedance for protecting jum** robots
from landing impacts. The theory of force transmissibility is used for selecting the passive …

The eleg: A novel efficient leg prototype powered by adjustable parallel compliant actuation principles

Z Ren, W Roozing… - 2018 IEEE-RAS 18th …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the design and implementation details of an efficient robotic leg (eLeg)
prototype in which series-elastic actuation is combined with adjustable parallel compliance …