Two-finger caging of nonconvex polytopes

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 324-333

  Pipattanasomporn, Peam ^a   Sudsang, Attawith ^a  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Caging; grasping

Indexed keywords

3D OBJECT; CAGING; GRASPING; NONCONVEX; NUMBER OF FINGERS; POLYTOPES;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 79953785795     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2010.2103451     Document Type: Article

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