Mechanics and Control of Soft-fingered Manipulation /
by Takahiro Inoue, Shinichi Hirai.
- recurso en línea.
Springer eBooks
Observation of Soft-fingered Grasping and Manipulation -- Elastic Model of a Deformable Fingertip -- Fingertip Model with Tangential Deformation -- Variational Formulations in Mechanics -- Statics of Soft-fingered Grasping and Manipulation -- Dynamics of Soft-fingered Grasping and Manipulation -- Control of Soft-fingered Grasping and Manipulation -- Geometric and Material Nonlinear Elastic Model -- Non-Jacobian Control of Robotic Pinch Tasks -- Three-dimensional Grasping and Manipulation -- Conclusions.
It is well known that the anatomy of our fingers, which consists of soft fingertips and hard fingernails, is well designed for grasping and manipulating objects. Mechanics and Control of Soft-fingered Manipulation introduces a new approach to the modeling of fingertips that have a soft pad and a hard back plate, similar to human fingers. Starting from the observation of soft-fingered grasping and manipulation, the book provides a parallel distributed model that takes into account tangential deformation of the fingertips. The model is supported with many experimental verifications and simulation results. Statics and dynamics in soft-fingered grasping and manipulation are also formulated based on this new model. Mechanics and Control of Soft-fingered Manipulation uniquely investigates how soft fingertips with hard back plates enhance dexterity in grasping and manipulation, theoretically and experimentally. This approach reveals the differences between soft-fingered and rigid-fingered manipulation. Researchers involved in object manipulation by robotic hands, as well as in human dexterity in object manipulation, will find this text enlightening.