Potential Energy Distribution of Redundant Cable-Driven Robot Applied to Compliant Grippers: Method and Computational

Alejandro Rodriguez-Barroso1, Roque Saltaren2, Gerardo A Portilla2

  • 1Centro de Automática y Robótica. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, C/José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain. alejandro.rbarroso@upm.es.

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