• DocumentCode
    1832362
  • Title

    Design and torque-mode control of a cable-driven rotary series elastic actuator for subject-robot interaction

  • Author

    Junkai Lu ; Haninger, Kevin ; Wenjie Chen ; Tomizuka, Masayoshi

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Mech. Eng., Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    7-11 July 2015
  • Firstpage
    158
  • Lastpage
    164
  • Abstract
    To achieve a compact, lightweight and compliant actuator design for intrinsically safe subject-robot interactions, a Bowden cable-driven rotary series elastic actuator is proposed in this paper. To realize the zero output torque control of the proposed actuator in the presence of variable friction of the Bowden cable, a disturbance observer based torque-mode control algorithm is developed and analyzed. The effectiveness of the proposed design is verified by experiments with a human subject.
  • Keywords
    actuators; elasticity; friction; observers; robots; torque control; Bowden cable-driven rotary series elastic actuator; compliant actuator design; disturbance observer; subject-robot interactions; torque-mode control algorithm; variable friction; zero output torque control; Actuators; DC motors; Damping; Friction; Joints; Stability analysis; Torque;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Busan
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/AIM.2015.7222525
  • Filename
    7222525