A stiffness-based quality measure for compliant grasps and fixtures

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 675-688

  Lin, Qiao ^a   Burdick, Joel W ^b   Rimon, Elon ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Compliance modeling; Configuration space; Fixturing; Grasping; Optimization; Stiffness

Indexed keywords

FIXTURES (TOOLING); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION PLANNING; OPTIMIZATION; STIFFNESS;

COMPLIANT GRASPS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0034471281     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.897779     Document Type: Article

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