Constructing multifingered grasps to achieve admittance center

Abstract

Extending the grasp compliance center concept to grasps in dynamic situations, previous work formulated a concept termed the grasp admittance center and showed that a grasp with an admittance center will have four distinct advantages: stability, decoupled force/motion relation, decoupled time response, and the ease of assigning the grasp dynamic behavior. The authors obtain the analytical conditions that must be satisfied for an admittance center to be achievable. They develop a procedure for computing the necessary fingertip impedances to achieve a desired admittance center. The results of experiments showing the regulation of the apparent impedances of a typical finger are presented.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>