An increasingly popular alternative to the fully actuated rigid robot hands is the new class of adaptive, under-actuated and/or compliant hands that was recently proposed for robust grasping and dexterous manipulation. The robustness, the low cost and lightweight design and the low complexity of these hands make them easy to replicate and repair, while the inherited compliance and the reduced number of actuators, facilitate the efficient execution of stable grasps simplifying at the same time both the planning and control problems.
This project will focus on the modeling, analysis and development of an anthropomorphic, adaptive robot hand that will be of minimal complexity, weight and cost.
Undergraduate
An adaptive, anthropomorphic robot hand
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