The winch-bot: A cable-suspended, under-actuated robot utilizing parametric self-excitation

A simple, compact, yet powerful robotic winch, called ldquoWinch-Bot,rdquo is presented in this paper. The Winch-Bot is an underactuated robot having only one controllable axis. Although hanging a load with merely one cable, it is capable of moving it in a large workspace by swinging the load dynami...

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Main Authors: Cunningham, Daniel P. (Contributor), Asada, Harry (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2010-04-16T19:10:01Z.
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