Passive and Active Grasping with a Prehensile Robot End-Effector
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Greiner, Helen
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This report presents a design of a new type of robot end-effector with inherent mechanical grasping capabilities. Concentrating on designing an end-effector to grasp a simple class of objects, cylindrical, allowed a design with only one degree of actuation. The key features of this design are high bandwidth response to forces, passive grasping capabilities, ease of control, and ability to wrap around objects with simple geometries providing form closure. A prototype of this mechanism was built to evaluate these features.
Date issued
1990-05-01Other identifiers
AITR-1235
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AITR-1235