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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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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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