Mapping synergies from human to robotic hands with dissimilar kinematics: An approach in the object domain

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 825-837

  Gioioso, Guido ^a,b   Salvietti, Gionata ^b   Malvezzi, Monica ^a   Prattichizzo, Domenico ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Human skill transfer; Index Terms Dexterous robotic hands; Robotic grasping; Sensory and motor human hand synergies

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); END EFFECTORS; KINEMATICS; MAPPING; MIDDLEWARE; ROBOTIC ARMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

HUMAN HANDS; HUMAN SKILL TRANSFER; INDEX TERMS; MANIPULATED OBJECTS; MANIPULATION TASK; OBJECT DOMAINS; ROBOTIC GRASPING; UNIFIED CONTROL;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84876891976     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2013.2252251     Document Type: Article

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