Miniature compliant grippers with vision-based force sensing

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 867-877

  Reddy, Annem Narayana ^a   Maheshwari, Nandan ^a,b,c   Sahu, Deepak Kumar ^a,d   Ananthasuresh, G K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cauchy's problem; mesoscale manufacturing; microgripper; topology optimization; vision based force sensing

Indexed keywords

CAUCHY'S PROBLEM; MESOSCALE; MICROGRIPPER; TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION; VISION-BASED FORCE SENSING;

MANUFACTURE; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSORS; SILICONES; TOPOLOGY; YEAST;

GRIPPERS;

EID: 77957723040     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2010.2056210     Document Type: Article

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