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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cunningham, Daniel P., Asada, Harry
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/53726
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3155-6223