Design of parallel variable stiffness actuators

CW Mathews, DJ Braun - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Direct-drive motors (DDMs) have been increasingly used for robot actuation because they
provide high-fidelity torque control, but they typically have low torque density. Gearing can …

Doorgym: A scalable door opening environment and baseline agent

Y Urakami, A Hodgkinson, C Carlin, R Leu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
In order to practically implement the door opening task, a policy ought to be robust to a wide
distribution of door types and environment settings. Reinforcement Learning (RL) with …