Towards Grasping in Unstructured Environments: Optimization of Grasper Compliance and Configuration

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 3410-3416

  Dollar, Aaron M ^a   Howe, Robert D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GRIPPERS; KINEMATICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSORS; STIFFNESS; TORQUE;

COMPLIANT GRASPERS; ROBOT JOINTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0347409264     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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