Mobility of bodies in contact - Part I: A 2nd-order mobility index for multiple-finger grasps

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 696-708

  Rimon, Elon ^a   Burdick, Joel W ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Curvature; Fixturing; Geometry; Grasping; Kinematics; Mobility

Indexed keywords

KINEMATICS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

MOBILITY INDEX; MULTIPLE-FINGER GRASP ROBOTS;

GRIPPERS;

EID: 0032188196     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.720346     Document Type: Article

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