@inproceedings{HochbergDietscheDorer2013, author = {Ulrich Hochberg and Armin Dietsche and Klaus Dorer}, title = {Evaporative Cooling of Actuators for Humanoid Robots}, series = {Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots, IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Atlanta, October 2013}, doi = {10.13140/2.1.4036.2246}, year = {2013}, abstract = {Autonomous humanoid robots need high torque actuators to be able to walk and run. One problem in this context is the heat generated. In this paper we propose to use water evaporation to improve cooling of the motors. Simulations based on thermodynamic calculations as well as measurements on real actuators show that, under the assumption of the load of a soccer game, cooling can be considerably improved with relatively small amounts of water.}, language = {en} }