Flexible robot hand with embedded SMA actuators

Zhongguo Dianji Gongcheng Xuebao/Proceedings of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 74-79

  Yang, Kai ^a   Gu, Cheng Lin ^a   Yan, Xin Rong ^b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering   (China)

Author keywords

Actuator; Bending; Finger; Grasping; Robot hand; SMA (shape memory alloy)

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

GRASPING; ROBOT FINGERS; ROD DEFLECTION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 1542301750     PISSN: 02588013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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