Miniature soft hand with curling rubber pneumatic actuators

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 556-561

  Wakimoto, Shuichi ^a   Ogura, Keiko ^a   Suzumori, Koichi ^a   Nishioka, Yasutaka ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CHAMBERS; BENDING MOTION; CASTING PROCESS; EXCIMER LIGHT; FABRICATION PROCESS; FIBER-REINFORCED RUBBERS; HIGH POTENTIAL; HIGH SAFETY; MECHANICAL IMPEDANCES; MICRO-RUBBERS; NONLINEAR FEM; PNEUMATIC ACTUATOR; REINFORCED FIBERS; ROBOT HAND; ROBOT LEG; RUBBER BONDING; RUBBER STRUCTURES; SOFT ACTUATORS; SOFT-DEVICES; SURFACE IMPROVEMENT;

ACTUATORS; EXPERIMENTS; FIBERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MACHINING; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; RUBBER; RUBBER MOLDS;

RUBBER MOLDING;

EID: 70350383493     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152259     Document Type: Conference Paper

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