energy conserving property / energy storing properties / little energy / energy function / supplied energy / freedom systems / energy efficient actuator / variable stiffness device / kinetic energy / possible applications / robotic systems / energy free way / injected energy / energy efficient control law / robot-environment interaction applications / stored elastic energy / sensible solution / nominal energy / energy / energy efficient actuation / on achieving energy efficient actuation / /
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University of Twente / Department of Electrical Engineering / Faculty of Electrical Engineering / Mathematics and Computer Science / European Commission / /
Energy Efficient Actuation with Variable Stiffness Actuators Ludo C. Visser, Raffaella Carloni and Stefano Stramigioli Abstract— Research effort in the field of variable stiffness actuators is steadily increasing, due