@inproceedings{96564aab2c434c839ecd8d5be7934724,
title = "Motor-less and gear-less robots: New technologies for service and personal robots",
abstract = "In the last years, we have been working on exploring alternative actuation technologies for the future service and personal robots. These shall allow designing lighter and safer robots, devoid of conventional mechanical transmission mechanisms i.e. motor-less and gear-less robots. Here, we summarise our work with Shape Memory Alloys. We show that, despite their known limitations, by finding suitable niches of application, dedicated mechatronics design, and ad-hoc control strategies, SMAs can effectively be used as an alternative actuation technology for robotic systems.",
keywords = "Artificial muscles, Bio-inspired robots, Smart materials",
author = "Claudio Rossi and William Coral and Julian Colorado",
note = "Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} 2019 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved.; 16th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, ICINCO 2019 ; Conference date: 29-07-2019 Through 31-07-2019",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.5220/0007955004140421",
language = "English",
series = "ICINCO 2019 - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics",
publisher = "SciTePress",
pages = "414--421",
editor = "Oleg Gusikhin and Kurosh Madani and Janan Zaytoon",
booktitle = "ICINCO 2019 - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics",
}