Passive and Active Grasping with a Prehensile Robot End-Effector

This report presents a design of a new type of robot end-effector with inherent mechanical grasping capabilities. Concentrating on designing an end-effector to grasp a simple class of objects, cylindrical, allowed a design with only one degree of actuation. The key features of this design are...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greiner, Helen
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7032