Tailoring the viscoelastic properties of soft pads for robotic limbs through purposely designed fluid filled structures

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 759-764

  Berselli, Giovanni ^a   Piccinini, Marco ^a   Vassura, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Experimental analysis; Human fingers; Robotic hands; Soft fingertip design

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHIC HAND; COMPLIANT SURFACES; CONTACT INTERFACE; DAMPING EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; EXTERNAL LOADS; FLUID-FILLED; FLUID-FILLED STRUCTURES; HUMAN FINGERS; INNER LAYER; INTERNAL LAYERS; POLYMERIC SOLIDS; ROBOTIC DEVICES; ROBOTIC HANDS; SKIN LAYER; SOFT FINGERTIPS; SOFT STRUCTURE; SOLID MATERIAL; SOLID PADS; TIME DEPENDENT PHENOMENA; VISCO-ELASTIC; VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES; VISCOUS FLUIDS;

CEMENTS; END EFFECTORS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FLUIDS; ROBOTIC ARMS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; VISCOELASTICITY;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 77955827068     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509320     Document Type: Conference Paper

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