Dexterous Robotic Hands: Kinematics and Control

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Title
en_US Dexterous Robotic Hands: Kinematics and Control
Creator
en_US Narasimhan, Sundar
Date
2004-10-20T20:00:48Z
Date Available
2004-10-20T20:00:48Z
Date Issued
en_US 1988-11-01
Identifier
en_US AITR-1056
Abstract
en_US This report presents issues relating to the kinematics and control of dexterous robotic hands using the Utah-MIT hand as an illustrative example. The emphasis throughout is on the actual implementation and testing of the theoretical concepts presented. The kinematics of such hands is interesting and complicated owing to the large number of degrees of freedom involved. The implementation of position and force control algorithms on such tendon driven hands has previously suffered from inefficient formulations and a lack of sophisticated computer hardware. Both these problems are addressed in this report. A multiprocessor architecture has been built with high performance microcomputers on which real-time algorithms can be efficiently implemented. A large software library has also been built to facilitate flexible software development on this architecture. The position and force control algorithms described herein have been implemented and tested on this hardware.
Extent
en_US 124 p.
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8178665 bytes
Format
application/postscript
application/pdf
Language
en_US
Relation
en_US AITR-1056
Subject
en_US hands
en_US kinematics
en_US computational architecture