An Adaptive Actuation Mechanism for Anthropomorphic Robot Hands
This paper presents an adaptive actuation mechanism that can be employed for the development of anthropomorphic, dexterous robot hands. The tendon-driven actuation mechanism achieves both flexion/extension and adduction/abduction on the finger's metacarpophalangeal joint using two actuators. Mo...
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| author | George P. Kontoudis Minas Liarokapis Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis Tomonari Furukawa |
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| description | This paper presents an adaptive actuation mechanism that can be employed for the development of anthropomorphic, dexterous robot hands. The tendon-driven actuation mechanism achieves both flexion/extension and adduction/abduction on the finger's metacarpophalangeal joint using two actuators. Moment arm pulleys are employed to drive the tendon laterally and achieve a simultaneous execution of abduction and flexion motion. Particular emphasis has been given to the modeling and analysis of the actuation mechanism. More specifically, the analysis determines specific values for the design parameters for desired abduction angles. Also, a model for spatial motion is provided that relates the actuation modes with the finger motions. A static balance analysis is performed for the computation of the tendon force at each joint. A model is employed for the computation of the stiffness of the rotational flexure joints. The proposed mechanism has been designed and fabricated with the hybrid deposition manufacturing technique. The efficiency of the mechanism has been validated with experiments that include the assessment of the role of friction, the computation of the reachable workspace, the assessment of the force exertion capabilities, the demonstration of the feasible motions, and the evaluation of the grasping and manipulation capabilities. An anthropomorphic robot hand equipped with the proposed actuation mechanism was also fabricated to evaluate its performance. The proposed mechanism facilitates the collaboration of actuators to increase the exerted forces, improving hand dexterity and allowing the execution of dexterous manipulation tasks. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cde9333c92614f55b284862a3c3368a62022-12-21T18:30:56ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Robotics and AI2296-91442019-07-01610.3389/frobt.2019.00047439065An Adaptive Actuation Mechanism for Anthropomorphic Robot HandsGeorge P. Kontoudis0Minas Liarokapis1Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis2Tomonari Furukawa3Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United StatesDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, New ZealandDaniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United StatesDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United StatesThis paper presents an adaptive actuation mechanism that can be employed for the development of anthropomorphic, dexterous robot hands. The tendon-driven actuation mechanism achieves both flexion/extension and adduction/abduction on the finger's metacarpophalangeal joint using two actuators. Moment arm pulleys are employed to drive the tendon laterally and achieve a simultaneous execution of abduction and flexion motion. Particular emphasis has been given to the modeling and analysis of the actuation mechanism. More specifically, the analysis determines specific values for the design parameters for desired abduction angles. Also, a model for spatial motion is provided that relates the actuation modes with the finger motions. A static balance analysis is performed for the computation of the tendon force at each joint. A model is employed for the computation of the stiffness of the rotational flexure joints. The proposed mechanism has been designed and fabricated with the hybrid deposition manufacturing technique. The efficiency of the mechanism has been validated with experiments that include the assessment of the role of friction, the computation of the reachable workspace, the assessment of the force exertion capabilities, the demonstration of the feasible motions, and the evaluation of the grasping and manipulation capabilities. An anthropomorphic robot hand equipped with the proposed actuation mechanism was also fabricated to evaluate its performance. The proposed mechanism facilitates the collaboration of actuators to increase the exerted forces, improving hand dexterity and allowing the execution of dexterous manipulation tasks.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frobt.2019.00047/fullbioinspirationunderactuationtendon-driven mechanismsrobotic fingersrobot hands |
| spellingShingle | George P. Kontoudis Minas Liarokapis Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis Tomonari Furukawa An Adaptive Actuation Mechanism for Anthropomorphic Robot Hands Frontiers in Robotics and AI bioinspiration underactuation tendon-driven mechanisms robotic fingers robot hands |
| title | An Adaptive Actuation Mechanism for Anthropomorphic Robot Hands |
| title_full | An Adaptive Actuation Mechanism for Anthropomorphic Robot Hands |
| title_fullStr | An Adaptive Actuation Mechanism for Anthropomorphic Robot Hands |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Adaptive Actuation Mechanism for Anthropomorphic Robot Hands |
| title_short | An Adaptive Actuation Mechanism for Anthropomorphic Robot Hands |
| title_sort | adaptive actuation mechanism for anthropomorphic robot hands |
| topic | bioinspiration underactuation tendon-driven mechanisms robotic fingers robot hands |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frobt.2019.00047/full |
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