On designing structured soft covers for robotic limbs with predetermined compliance

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2, Issue PARTS A AND B, 2010, Pages 165-174

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODELS; EFFECTIVE SOLUTION; ENDOSKELETAL STRUCTURES; EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; EXTERNAL LAYERS; HOMOGENEOUS LAYERS; HUMAN FINGERS; INTERNAL LAYERS; MICRO BEAMS; NONLINEAR COMPRESSION; NUMBER AND SIZE; OVERALL STIFFNESS; SOFT MATERIAL; SUB-REGIONS; TRIANGULAR ELEMENTS; TWO LAYERS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS; MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; TISSUE;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 80055014273     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2010-28965     Document Type: Conference Paper

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