Design of Fingertip Sensors and 7-Dof Hands for Robotic Manipulation

Abstract

The goal of this work is to enable robots to one day enter the home environment to do household tasks at human-like speeds. Reacting to unexpected external contacts is the main challenge of designing systems that can forcefully manipulate objects. This research focuses on the design of robotic hands and sensors for quick and reactive manipulation using high bandwidth sensing and robotic manipulation platform with high DOFs.