A Dual-Cam Parallel Elastic Actuator with Shared Gas-Spring Compensation for Humanoid Ankles
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Source: arXiv cs.ROPublish time unverified
arXiv:2608.30832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To improve torque capacity and energy efficiency of humanoid ankles, this paper proposes a 2-DoF parallel elastic actuator (PEA). The main novelty of the proposed design lies in its dual-cam, single-gas-spring architecture, which enables torque compensation in both pitch and roll using a shared elastic element, thereby improving structural compactness compared with conventional multi-element compensation schemes.