Design and evaluation of a robust compliant grasper using shape deposition manufacturing

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Dynamic Systems and Control Division (Publication) DSC

Volumn 74 DSC, Issue 2 PART B, 2005, Pages 1403-1410

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

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Rapid Prototyping; Robot Hand Design; Robotic Grasping; Shape Deposition Manufacturing; Unstructured Environments

Indexed keywords

ROBOT HAND DESIGN; ROBOTIC GRASPING; SHAPE DEPOSITION MANUFACTURING; UNSTRUCTURED ENVIRONMENTS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; RAPID PROTOTYPING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

ROBOTIC ARMS;

EID: 33645663946     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE2005-79791     Document Type: Conference Paper

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