Actuator Mechanism Design

The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Continuously Variable Transmission and Variable Stiffness Actuators

  • Designed a variable stiffness actuator that uses a spring element composed of an array of compliant beams with variable effective length.
  • Helped Ben Brown with the design of a continuously variable transmission (CVT) for robot actuators.

    • Design Study: Survey of CVT Designs for Robot Joint Actuators

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