A robust compliant grasper via shape deposition manufacturing

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 154-161

  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

ACTUATORS; END EFFECTORS; MANIPULATORS; MOTION PLANNING; RAPID PROTOTYPING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SENSORS;

CONTACT FORCES; ELASTOMERIC FLEXURES; ROBOT HAND DESIGN; ROBOTIC GRASPING; ROBUST COMPLIANT GRASPER; SHAPE DEPOSITION MANUFACTURING;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33645809150     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2006.871090     Document Type: Article

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