Air Muscle Actuated Low Cost Humanoid Hand

The control of humanoid robot hands has historically been expensive due to the cost of precision actuators. This paper presents the design and implementation of a low-cost air muscle actuated humanoid hand developed at Curtin University of Technology. This hand offers 10 individually controllable de...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Peter Scarfe, Euan Lindsay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2008-11-01
Series:International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
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Online Access:http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/air_muscle_actuated_low_cost_humanoid_hand