Stiffness modeling of the soft-finger contact in robotic grasping

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 646-656

  Ghafoor, Abdul ^a   Dai, Jian S ^b   Duffy, Joseph ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

END EFFECTORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; ROTATION; STIFFNESS; STIFFNESS MATRIX;

CONGRUENCE TRANSFORMATION; ROBOTIC GRASPING; SOFT FINGER CONTACT;

GRIPPERS;

EID: 4344672682     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1758255     Document Type: Article

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