• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.1835-1845
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• 2005

In this paper a safe arm with passive compliant joints and visco-elastic covering is designed for human-friendly service robots. The passive compliant joint (PCJ) is composed of a magneto-rheological (MR) damper and a rotary spring. In addition to a spring component, a damper is introduced for damping effect and works as a rotary viscous damper by controlling the electric current according to the angular velocity of spring displacement. When a manipulator interacts with human or environment, the joints and cover passively operate and attenuate the applied collision force. The force attenuation property is verified through collision experiments showing that the proposed passive arm is safe in view of some evaluation measures.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.2010-2015
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• 2003

In this paper, a design and control of the safe arm with passive compliant joints(PCJ) is presented. Each PCJ has a magneto- rheological damper and maximum 6 springs. Compliance analysis in Cartesian space is performed with the compliance ellipsoid; this analysis shows a map between compliance in the joint space and compliance in Cartesian space. Vibration control of the arm using an input shaping technique is also presented; the results of a simulation and an experiment prove that a fast motion of the safe arm without residual vibration can be performed.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.119.2-119
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• 2002

In this paper a passive compliant joint (PCJ) for human-friendly service robots is presented. The PCJ is composed of a magneto-rheological damper and a spring for elasticity. In the magneto-rheological damper, a braking force proportional to the electric current is generated. It works as a viscous damper by controlling the electric current according to the angular velocity of spring displacement. The compliance property and position control of the PCJ are verified through experiments and simulations to a single DOF simple arm with the PCJ.