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A Low Cost Series Elastic Actuator Test Bench

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Abstract

The concept of compliance relates to a robot’s capability to exert, absorb, and measure forces acting on its joints. The existing research currently available for compliant actuators is promising, but prohibitively expensive, posing a fiscal entry barrier to research.

This paper presents a low cost Series Elastic Actuator test bench, as an initial work towards a modular compliant actuator toolkit (MCAT).

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  1. School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK

    Oliver Smith & Swen E. Gaudl

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

    Abdelkhalick Mohammad

  2. Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

    Xin Dong

  3. Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

    Matteo Russo

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Smith, O., Gaudl, S.E. (2020). A Low Cost Series Elastic Actuator Test Bench. In: Mohammad, A., Dong, X., Russo, M. (eds) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. TAROS 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12228. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63486-5_6

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