DESIGN AND CONTROL OF A VARIABLE-RADIUS PULLEY-BASED PNEUMATIC ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE ACTUATION SYSTEM

Xiangrong Shen, Garrett Waycaster, and Sai-Kit Wu

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