Towards grasping in unstructured environments: Grasper compliance and configuration optimization

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 523-543

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

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compliance; Grasping; Mechanism design; Unstructured environments

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORCE CONTROL; KINEMATICS; MANIPULATORS; ROBOTIC ARMS; SENSORS;

COMPLIANCE; GRASPING; MECHANISM DESIGN; UNSTRUCTURED ENVIRONMENTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 21244503520     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855305323383785     Document Type: Article

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